The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 15, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMP “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9061. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 15 PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. FORCES BOMB JAPS IN ALEUTIANS Molofov Greefed On A il %S T Arriving in Washington for his histo Molotov was greeted by high-ranking government officials. secret conve ations with the President, Soviet Commis Left to right, at an airport are: General rrival r V. M. George C. Marshall, U. S. Army Chief of Staff; Secretary of State Cordell Hull: Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the U Nav, States. The visit was announced afte Announce Huge Sitka Spruce Project for Southeast Alaska a portion of the bulk will Sound mills or Molotov was safely home. the be to| manufacture of logs cut, while towed to Puget Portland Final dressing of the will be taken care of in specialty shops. Burdick said that spruce grows| more slowly in Alaska, producing a better quality cf wood which is| in demand by the airplane manu- facturers June 15—Charles G. Burdick, Assistant Regional Forest- er for the Alaska region, has dis closed plans for extensive logging operations in the Sitka spruce for- ests of Southeastern Alaska to pro- vide a possible 15,000,000 board feet per month of the tough, light wood for airplane construction. Burdick has returned from Washington, where he conferred with the War Production Board on the project. [ Assistant Regional Forester Well- The logging will be done near|man Holbrook, meanwhile, an-| Ketchikan on contract by lumber|younced in Juneau that the project | companies of Washington, Oregon|means that Alaska will be making | and other Western states. Alaskaian jmportant contribution to the | sawmills will handle the primary|war effort. SEATTL! wood just Juneau Cemment | Holbrcok said that the The Washington o, s, | modity Credit Corporation and the Merry - GO » Round | Forgst Service, under which the| R ¢ | Porest Service, acting as a corpor- | By DREW PEARSON— | ation agent, will ccnduct the huge | and ROBERT S. ALLEN | Iproject for the logging of spruce | WASHINGTON — In Army-Navy southwestern part of Tongass Na-| Secretary between the Com- | 'logs from selected areas in the i circles, the Battle of Midway Is- | tional Forest. | land ws considered‘import:mt fm_l Only the larger, and more high only, s 8 WIIRG poin In the WAL: quality trees, he said, will be cut. but as a new milestone in th -| § ) mand for a separate, independent | _Burdmk ln. (hfxrge. U. S. air force, not chained down| Regional Forester Frank B. s now in Washington, y battleship prejudices of the Heintzleman, :()intlk:':ls. A |and Holbrook will have general re- There are two chiel reasons iorisponsibilicy for the projec‘t. Direct- this renewed demand for a separate |ly in charge, nowever, will be Bur- air corps at this time: |dick and J. M. Wyckoff, Forest 1. The Battle of Midway, and in|Inspector. fact all major U. 8. victories SOf rhe Commodity Credit Corpora- far, have been won pq»f;‘ma;qfly‘;iy l“;e tion will buy the stumpage from Army Air Corps. The Navy NaS ¢he porest Service after which Re- heen)in command, issued the COM-|g;0n.1 Officers will contract the muniques, and received most of :.m logging to numerous independent credit. But at Midway 'and lnf logeing concerns, contract the as- Coral Sea, land based afmy T'7sembly of logs into Davis rafts of p’;‘“e"'.‘“me.d Hie (-Ll]ad;noll‘?:tmdé‘; around two million feet each, ar- pité l:::);'ifallmi];;onance of bomb-|range for towing the rafts to Pu- ing planes, the battleship still gets|&et Solind;7And - offer. the- logs . for priority in materials over bombers. sale to mills M.uch specialize in Actually, construction of both|cutling spruce airplane stock. bombers and battleships get top| Hclbrook pointed out that while priority ratings. Buf when it comes some of the logs will be sawed by to some of the materials °0:3 Alaska mills, since few of the Al- into bombers, it is another story. aska mills are capable of handling Army airmen say that certainine larger logs and because in- materials for bombers get only 2|.urricient cargo space is available No. 4 rating, whereas all materials|, papgle shipments, rafting the i‘:‘w":ig::g“‘;e:';“’;‘zfiefl‘e“l‘)‘;‘:‘:fi}‘ great bulk of the logs to Seatle| ships now building will not be fin- 15 PEOESSEY- L ished for two or three years; while! et yur,y "“l G pombers can be finished in a fow | ’1.11:' goal antl by ‘F'l)l(st SL'IH»"O weeks, and they can be dropping x:filcxflls in this region is 100 mil- bombs on Germany a few days lion feet of lngh-grmlv logs per year later. {for the duration. This question, many military| Heintzleman and Burdick have startegists feel, is one of the most been in the States for some time fundamental faced by U. 8. forces. for the purpose of perfecting the and represents the difference be- | organization of the large projects tween winning the war in 1942 Porest Service timber cruise par- (Continued on Page Four) 7\0’0nl.|m‘ned on Page Five) 'was protected by two ai | quotation of Molotov, and Maxim Litvinov, Russion Ambassador to the United ITALIANS WIN OVER BRITISH Violent Battle Reported Fought Between Air- craft, Convoy ROME, June 1 A violent battle between Tta arplanes and one of two strongly protected eastbound British convoys negotiating the per- ilious passage between Africa and Sardinia, resulted in the sinking of two cruisers and a destroyer and damage to five other warcraft, in- cluding an aircraft carrier and a battleship This is the announcement made by the Italian High Command which |asserts the heavy blows were struck Sunday when the Italian torpedo of Agriculture approved on Juue!planes, bombers and fighters swarm- | which aft car- ed over one of the convo; riers and other war vessels. Action was resumed again early today, the Italian communique says. | LONDON IS SILENT LONDON, June 15. — British authorities declined to make any comment on the communique issued by the Italian High Command. GRS Y75 5 o THIRD RAID | ON DARWIN MADE TODAY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 15.—Darwin was raided again today for the third successive day by Japanese war- planes, supported by fighters. but few casualties resulted, Gen. Doug- las MacArthur's headquarters an- nounced. The attacking force today the largest yet reported. Raids were made on Darwin on Saturday, also Sunday. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jume 15 — Closing Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, Anaconda 24'%:, Bethlehem Steel 51'%, Common- wealth and Southern 7/30 Curtiss Wright 6, International Harvester 46, Kennecott 28, New York Cen- tral 7%, Northern Pacific 5, United States Steel 46 Pound $4.04. DOW, JONEf AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 10441, ll‘uil.s 23.45, utilities 12.14. 28 NATIONS was | ~ JOINFIGHT UPON AXIS | American Flag Day Is Ob- served in Two Hemi- spheres—Rededication ) PRESS) The colors of the United Nations were broken out in every contin- ent yesterday in a martial demon- stration of unity in the common fight against tyranny and oppres- | sion In both hemispheres, above. and below the equator, millions of fres dom loving people took America’ flag day as their own in rededicat- | ing themselves to the task of smashing the Axis powers. [ President Roosevelt in welcom- |ing Mexico and the Philippines to! the family of nations, now num- | bering 28, declared that the united countries are taking the sword from | hands and with it these tyrants." | | | the oppressor’s “they will destroy Members of the crew of a Fly - LEND - LEASE * AID REACHES BIG AMOUNT President Says Reservoir: of Resources Near Flood Stage | | return, Pate, Dallas Te: Cpl. Honolulu to San Fran They WASHINGTON, June 15—Pr dent Roosevelt today informed Con-! gress that lend-lease aid up to the end of May totalled almost four and one half billicn dollars. The President said the “battle of distribution has passed the critical sphe nd our reservoir of re- sources is now approaching the flood stage and the next step in our military stategy will be fo direct our resources in full force against the ceuters of enemy pow- e Ceee - Drive for Rubber Is Begun Now 'Campaign Started Today- . Ends at Midnight on June 30 Herces of the battle of Mid th WASHINGTON, June 15 — The intensive drive for collection of the nation’s scrap rubber started today | and will not conclude until midnight | June 30. | Individuals are urged to search | basements, attics and backyards for |all items of rubber that have been | discarded or can be discarded. | Filling stations will serve as col- lection depots and will pay one cent a pound for rubber brought (in and the Government will reim- {burse them at the scene. | President Roosevelt, in announc- ing the drive last Friday, declared |the rubber situation is extremely | serious. AL SHYMAN, J. J. MEHERIN LEAVE Al Shyman, owner and manager of Alaska Distribators, left this morning for Ketchikan with Alaska Coastal Airlines and will continue from there south. He was accom- panied by J. J. Meherin, Alaska rep- resentative for the company Mr. Shyman spent three weeks in Alaska during which time he cov- ered the Interior, Westward and Southeast Alaska portions of the Germansi i ans 'n Territory for Alaska Distributors | He expects to return to the Terri- | (ross, Done' ',“”"" in September g st | | : MISS MARY JOYCE River, Now " ieaves ror 1ax BERLIN, June 15 — The Berlinl Mary Joyee, owner of Taku Lodg radio broadcasts a Transocean on the Taku River, left by ACA |agency report the “German formu-| plane Saturday afternoon for her tions east of Rharkov have crossed lodge to spend the summer months the Donets River at all important| Miss Joyce arri points in their course of their ad-| south last week afteér spending six |vance eastward months as stewardess with North- —— - |west Airlines between Minneapoli AT PR S S BUY DEFENSE BONDS and Seattle, dics, who were forced to stay behind, gather round the ir Force was radiced from Honolulu to San Fig FOR KETCHIKAN| ed here from the Flying Foriress Heroes Return tempt to invade Midway and Hawaii a The fliers, left to right, Lie i and Lieut. Henry H. Picture made at Oahu n to an airfield on Oahu in an Army transport plane. 1eisco. Rui)bemeck Buses Are Out in Washingion;Real Information Also Stops BY JACK § SHINGTON, June Capital , in Wartime. Washinglon for months, or years, t ubberneck buses are dled for the duration, nletely. The wite 'INNLTT 15 The the sam wne. T cur- won't be gone but com- weren't hington buses the We have only L years) but they rubberneck old @ wonument (they rou about 30 ere almost as commonplac long-time capital residen as to t It is less than two years nterviewed William Bush, presi- lent of the Gray Lines company at operated the buses, and heard im predict that Washington was ecoming the sightseeing, as weil s governmental capital of the wation. He was right, too. The urope had given interest wn government a terrific Chat and the impossibility opean travel put the tourist res here through the ceiling From almost sun up lown, the company's buses nade various tours and spielors rat led off facts about everything from he Navy Yard to the Burcau of Standards. since 1 war in in our impetus, of E Lig to sun- 27 (Continued on Page Two) big plane to greet them. T | trip to Sitka and back tomorrow. ATTACKS ON KISKA,ATTU Report Nipbon ForcesHave Been Kept from Pop- ulated Areas WASHINGTON, June 15—Activ- ity continued in the Alaskan war ccene today as American aerial | forces battered away at Jap land- ing parties and at Jap vessels at |Attu and Kiska Islands. | It was reported this morning |that our air forces had made six |raids this morning on Attu and at Kiska Harbor, pounding away |at several Jap ships in the latter including a cruiser and a | destroyer. | Reports said that the Jap forces | have Leen forced to retire from the | populated areas on both islands. | Poor Weather }' The Navy Department announced | Saturday that our planes had been | hampered by poor flying conditions and had succeeded in locating the ted Press on their | Jap forces in the Aleutians only in ut. R. p, |the “last 24 hours.” Biced treik } The Jap activities apparently, since the June 3 attack on Dutch | Harbor, have been confined to Kiska " |and Attu, since there has been no | announcement of enemy attacks,on 'uny other Alaskan outpost. The Navy Department attaches little significance to the latest de- | velopments in the Aleutians. Qual- |ified Army and Navy sources say that the Jap activities at Attu and Kiska are nothing to arouse deep \concfl‘n. the temporary loss of such isolated islands are believed |to figure among the ‘“calculated risks” which Admiral King, Fleet Commander-in-Chief, has said that | the high command has to assume. Station At Attu Attu has a small radio station, | operated by Mr. and Mrs. Foster Jones of the Alaska Office of In- dian Affairs, a native village with a population of 44, a church and a trading post, nothing of military epted in their at- (Continued on Page Tlu:ee) LG * SOVIETS HARD ¥4 | ™ HIT ON BOTH \# SOUTH FRONTS This picture by the . weight Assault at Se- . bastopol, Kharkov BRIIISH IN | MOSCOW, June 15—Steaming in- |to the fight around Sebastopol, with |its guns thundering, the Soviet's li&vA AREA )bluugm aid to the hard-pressed ‘lund garrison, laying down dead- ly barrages and taking a heavy tol! Now SplII from the Axis assault forces. | The battle arcund the importany : # ¢ |drawn siege lines blocking off the Italians Claim Drive fo|crimean port 54 | On the shell pocked front east of Med'ie”anean - Im. | Kharkov?in the Ukraine sector, the & A | fight continues in undiminished perials Encircled x German gains given in either front’s 5 | dispatches since yesterday Command today declared the Axis| Yesterday's communique, howev- forces in the Libyan Desert have € said that the Germans had by-passed the British near Arroma pushed forward in some sectors ana Jdriven to the Mediterranean Coait | et ar Mok a full scale onslaught against Se- bastopol in an attempt to smash of this new gap are said to be en-|the Russian defense by sheer circled weight of men and armor, This means, says the Italian et High Command, that the British| GERMAN STATRMENT Imperials defending Ain Elgazala| BERLIN, June 15—Despite the stubborn resistance of the Red Ar- original defense line have been out- [V units defending Sebastopol, they flanked by the Axis and their lines|have been thrown out of several pierced |important positions, the German The Itallan High Command sald|COmmand said today in its com- the British defending forces {munique. | The said that in the battle east of Kharkov, the “rem- nants of the beaten enemy” have TRIP TO NORTH ! been destroyed and 25000 prison-~ ers taken, ring wua- | NaZis Throwing Heavy- !Bh\(k Sea fleet is reported to have | Black Sea outlet has found tightly fury, with no further reports of ROME, June The Italian in Kharkov and had turned loose The British forces remaining west n the northern extremities of the| have | been split fighting | dispatch - in bloody N WILLI FROM Williams M. D eer for District Engin- | the Public Reads Adminis-| tration, is back Juneau afteri® @ @ © o 0 0 0 ¢ & & & & a trip of several weeks to Anchor- e WEATHER REPORT . age and Seward on official busi-'e Temperatur:, Sunday, June 14 © %ie plans to make a short @, Maximum 56, Minimum 46 e e 0000000 in ness,