The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9062. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, [345 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAP CRUISER SENT DOWN OFF ALEUTIANS U.S. Air Force Attacks In Mediterranean AMERICAN SCRAPPILE AXIS CLAIMS ALASKAWAR orthwes! Firsl‘ Torpedflng‘o‘fl Pacifi N SIXNIPPON CRAFT ARE OFRUBBER BIG VICTORY COUNCILTO PILING UP LIBYA AREA START WORK * 'ALSO BOMBED I AN : : jNavyAnno'flnrcésAdion in FLIERS IN NEW FIELD iBriIish Admit ltalian Divi- Ordered tombilize Man- Army Fighters Join RAF- Nation's Drive Now Under- Set Italian Battleships Afire, Sink Cruiser 16 — The United States Army Air Force and RAF operating together for ‘the first time in the Mediterranean Sea, set fire to two Italian battleships, sunk a 10,000 ton Italian cruiser of the Trento class and also scored hi's on a smaller cruiser and a destroy- er in four days of reavy fightivg In addition the RAF of the Royal Navy's fleet air arm, set fire to another Italian cruiser and prob- ably hit a destroyer of the second force during the same per- CAIRO, June naval iod. The communique said the Ameri- can airmen are operating big four- engined Consolidated B-24 bomb- ers the British call Liberators. American planes that landed in Turkey and the crews have been in- terned, raided the Rumanian Black Sea area last week and they had B-24 bombers, long range. - — RAF DROPS PROPAGANDA IN FRANCE Tricolor Fla—is'_FalI on His- foric Liberty Mem- orials in Paris LONDON, June 16— The Royal Air Force announced today that a British plane dropped two French Tricolor flags over Paris during lhdjup Witlie ek Sheiaahatdsns’ ok including night as it attacked the ‘orm”iablc to deliver their contributions|destrovers Marine Ministry with cannon fire. The first flag was dropped over France's memorial Arc De Tri- omphe and the second in the Place De La Concord. The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Admiral Ernest King's order slashing red tape 50 that hastBETAOINNUNUN N U U per cent is not the only tightening up that has been instituted in the Navy. Another move not announced is aimed at check-reining the free- handed dishing out of reserve com- missions to socialites and sons of the wealthy, which has aroused widespread criticism against the Navy. Under a new regulation, these fledging reserve officers are put on probation and if they don't measure | .o =p T oy thei gun until | Government. up, their commissions will be sum- marily revoked. Navy insiders believe the new system will have a potent effect both in curbing the ladling out of commissions and in weeding out any incompetents. UNPLUGGED HOLE ‘While.moving to plug up this hole, Navy brasshats, however, still have done nothing about another one. This is the Navy's favoritism-rid- den promotion system, under which regular officers with outstanding records and in the prime of life are “passed over” and slated for retirement. Recently, this column disclosed how under this system three offi- cers who have won high U. S. mil- itary decorations for heroism at Pear]l Harbor and in the Battle of Java had been previously ‘“passed over” by brasshat Promotion Boards. We can now reveal that there were two others similarly axed Lt " (Continued on Page Four) | way - Juneau Enters Campaign at Once WASHINGTON, Juné 16—Amer- ica's sions Break Through power in Territory ‘ at El Gazala } for Defense i 16—The German' WASHINGTON, June 16—Immedi- today that Axis|ate organization of an Alaskan BERLIN, June command says scrap rubber pile mounted| 0 have won a big battle in!War Council to mobilize civilian steadily today as deflated beach al-| 0y jpvan desert. The communique | manpower and resources in sups, tires, punctured footballs, etc., dropped into it Thousands of tons have already been collected indicating that the campaign is off to a good start and will gain in the President’s cross-country drive which does not end until midnight June 30. ligators, discarded JUNEAU'S DRIVE TO RT Juneau prepared tod: to take |its part in the nation's current rub- |ber salvage campaign. The drive will begin immediately and, most important of all, every single scrap jof old rubber must be gathered by | June 30, exactly two weeks from today. Members of Juneau Rotary Club have agreed to direct the salvage |drive. Arrangements for taking |over the salvaged rubber, the pay- |ing and accounting for it. W%l be ade by the Standard Oil Company f California, under instructions re- ceived by Tom Dyer. local agent, and by K. G. Merritt of Union Oil Company. President Roosevelt has informed the public of the necessity of the collection of old rubber. Today the nation faces the most serious short- age of the vital war material in hist- ory. | Turn, In Everything | Juneau residents are asked to turn in everything from their last | year's garters to baby bottle nip- | ples—old tires, rubber boots, eras- lers, suspenders—scrap rubber of tevery type and description. | Starting tomorrow, Juneauites are jurged to turn in their old rubber | articles at Juneau Motors or at |Cowling and Davlin Co. Arrange- ments are also being made to pick |to the downtown salvage depots. | Sell Or Give If you don't want to give the |rubber in the campaign, arrange- ments also have been made to buy it from you for one cent a pound | Profits from the donated rubber will be turned over to the Red Cross, the USO and Navy Relief Those who choose to sell their rub- ber to the government will be paid‘ the one cent per pound price at the collection depots, but must deliver the scrap to the depots. Members of the Rotary Club com- | mittee directir,;; the drive include Tom Dyer, Don Skuse, Charles W.| Carter, Jack Burford and George | | Sundborg. | Juneau residents are urged to| take this salvage campaign ser-| iously. The government needs rub-| ber for tanks, planes, supply trucks, ships. Search your homes and va-| cant lots for every bit of rubber you can dig up. — et 15 DROWNED A GULF COAST PORT, June 16 —Four members of a naval gun| | ilhe recoil slapped the ship’s plates, {lost their lives along with 11 sea- | . 4 {men in the sinking of a medium- |sized U. S. merchant ship, it is an- |nounced today. | Five other members of the gun |crew and 25 seamen were saved afler being in the water for eight hours, some of them swimming,| others hanging onto small bits of wreckage until other cargo ships picked them up. — e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 16—American Can closed today at 68%, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 517, Common- {wealth and Sou?iern 7/30, Curtiss ‘Wright 6, International Harvester 46'2, Kennecott 27%, New York Central 7, Northern' Pacific 5. {‘Unlled States Steel 467, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 10451, rails 2347, utilities 12.10, |tion on the bill to provide finan- !c¢ial aid to dependents of service the Terri- by Secies Harold L. the defense of been directed the Interior of has of port tory says that the extent of the victory cannot yet be estimated but it de- clared that Axis troops have| tary reached the coast after destroyingIckes enemy forces at Acroma to cut off Chairman of the council is Gov. the British Air forces from El Gaz- | Ernest Gruening. The organization ala | will cooperate closely with military | authorities in putting the Territory | [on a full preparedness footing CAIRO, June 16 — The British{ The President’s executive order communique from the desert bat-'which authorized the Alaska War tlefronts today announce that their Council stated that it should forces have withdrawn successfully | the duty of the council to main- | BRITISH ANNOU MENT D OLIVER DEFEATED IN for six to from Acroma tain a close liaison with military | The dispatch admitted that at the authorities to bring the conduct of | ing from the west have broken closest possible conformity wlUl’ through at Ain el Gazala. military requirements | to “make such recommendations to | 19 S NK IN | military and other Federal authori- to the coordination of Federal and civil activities in the military pro- | (o“vov SAY 'of the civilian population of Al- | aska.” Many Down in British BERLIN, June 16—The German | I‘ \INE MOIE Command today declared that Ger- operating with Italian naval units, have sunk 56,000 tons of shipping, 1, # t l 0 ' % in attacks on a British = Mediterranean convoy. P”ma[y sunk, the communique said, and a PORTLAND, MAINE, Junc 16 destroyer and eight merchant ships Representative James Oliver, iso- assymed lost, : tack was defeated in his bid Another six warships and renomination in yesterday's Mainc bomb or torpedo hits, according 0.y, suporter of President Roose- the command. velt’s foreign policy. | tember election by former Governot Brann, Democrat, who has consist & | Hale had almost a two one DEPENDENTS (margin over Oliver. -~ same time Italian divisions attack-|Federal and civil activities into the - - The council will have the power ties as it deems desirable relative gram_for the safety and security ' Mediterranean Fleet man aircraft and naval vessels, co- P P ' H b I I four cruisers and four Two other escort vessels were il were hit by torpedoes arid may be |y iionist prior to Pearl Harbor at- merchant vessels were damaged by Republican primary by Robert Hale P (R Hale will be opposed in the Sep- |ently backed Roosevelt. | i WASHINGTON, June 16 — The! House has completed legislative ac-| men through deductions in Army| and Navy pay checks and lhrouuh: supplementary allowances by the] iDefenders, However, Re- 29,000 POUNDS | ported fo Be Inflictng | OF HALIBUT SOLD = Heavy Casualfies I“ ju"uu TODAY CHUNGKING, June 16 The ol Chinese High Command announces Halibut sales today totalled 29,000 |further Japanese advance east of locally for 13.70 Kiangsi Province but indicated the land 11.35 cents. |Chinese are exacting a heavy toll | Vessels arriving were the Nor-/on the Jap columns striving to 1land. Capt. Sivert Anderson, ls,woyclc&e a pincers on the Chekiang- | pounds, sold to Alaska Coast Fish-|Kiangsi Railway. |eries and the Vivian, Capt. Charles| The communique says the Chinese | Larsen, 10,000 pounds, sold to New!have abandoned Kwangfeng, 25 England Fish Company. The NOT-|mjles within Kiangsi Province, last 101}"‘;1:};0c:‘;oir_g:izhmso?aoo& p:]‘;:f: |Sunday after an all night battle - ¥ A (in which the Japs, thrusting we |Coast Fisheries. 'ward along the railway. sufferc | - —— % 4 ‘more than 1,000 casualties. - B.B.TONIGHT i | : D [ | The Joisey Joiks and Dodgers will| Non-resident tourists | meet on the diamond tonight at| Canada are required to obtain a \th? Firemens' Ball Park, the gamelslsoune license and ration coupon |starting at 6:30 o'clock, weather|book, according to the Departme: permitting, of Commerce, ) |pounds and sold entering be | The first torpedoing of a U. S. merchant ship off the coast of the Pacific Northwest was officially an- nounced by the U. S. Navy after the ship’s captain, Lyle G. Havens, 48, of San Carles, C: brought his crew safely to Port Angeles, Wash,, and reported' that only one man had been lost. e submarine attack- ed off ah Bay and Cape attery, accerding to U, 5. Senater Homer Bone of Washington. Rescue of these in a lifeboat was effected by Knut Petersen, master of a halibut schooner out of San The others, adrift in two rubber rafts throughout a s tormy night, were sighted by a Coast Guard plane and picked up by a Naval craft. The'man who died from exhaustion and exposure was Stephen Chase, Negro second cook and baker. Two men were seriously injured by the explosion. Upper photo shows part of the rescucd crew shortly after they were brought shoreside. Lower photo shows (left to right) First Officer E. W. Nystrom of Oakland Calif., and former student at Washington State College; Captain Lyle G. Hay Master; Scrgeant B, M. McElroy, whe is wearing a berrowed Navy uniform, and, standing, Third Officer Paul R. Nystrom's father is Captain Fred Nystrom, many years master of the 5. H. F. Alexander and now a prisoner of the Japs in Hongkorg. Nystrom carried a Lewis maching gun to the lifeboat with which to greet the sub if it should rise again. rancisco. Sexton, Contradictions from Washingfon Confusing To This Entire Nation HANGS FIRE has and By JACK STINNETT (this wildfire of contradiction run amock in the aluminum rubber production possibilities the WASHINGTON, June 16—One of the mysteries of the war effort, ven to some of the most observant veterans on the capital scene, has been the many, many contradic- tions in official statements on al- most every phase of defense It started as far back as the first asoline rationing threat on the astern seaboard, when it involved lable tank cars, tankers, gaso- stocks and consumption, and good many other statistics that Americans have prided themselves cn bhaving so accurately at their fingertips that any sophomore econ- cmist or engineering student could add them up and get the right answer. President tion on ' Proposed Legislation In recent weeks has intimated that olution to the tire problem may be worked out before we are reduced Lo run- ning on our rims. A New Jersey manufacturer testified before congressional committee that he had a formula for making all the re- capped tires necessary p all the cars in the country rolling and that formula would need only re- claimed rubber and two ounces per tive of natural rubber. Other high government ofticials in position to know declare thal only nation-wide gas rationing will save us from a tire shortage disaster A friend of mine, a Washington newspaper man, wrote a book called “Confusion on the Potomac.” It was published three days before a man Robert L. Doughton of announces that the co decided -that it responsibility now" administration’s request 000 limitation ind comes after payment of Members of the committee it is understood that the probably will not be considered connection with the pending o ke take considering ndl should A for $2: a of al taxes It spread to the shipbullding pro- ram and the possible conversion of the automobile industry to war production. For more than a year tol Hill that the President like action as soon as possible | excise taxes, (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON, June 16—Chair- the | cross House Ways and Means Commiitee mmittee has the the in- sald request tax bill, and word has spread on Capi North Pacific-Views of Observers June 16 — The . Navy announces that Army and | Navy aircraft, in the vicinity of | the Aleutian Islands, damaged three | Japanese cruisers, one destroyer, one gunboat and one transport This total of six enemy vessels | damaged is reported officially short- | ly after the Glenn L. Martin Com- | pany, with the approval of the | War Department, made public a ;‘ln-lrurum from- Gen. H. H. Arnold, | reporting that Army bombers had | sunk one Japanese cruiser and | drepped a torpedo on the deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier. Observers’ Views Both American and Canadian | war observers are now practically convinced that a two-way attack | was planned by the Japanese, an ‘n»nlm on Midway Island and al- |so Hawail with an attempt at an invasion of Hawali, and an assault on westward Alaska with destruc- |tion of Alaskan air bases as the |aim. That the attack on westward | Alaska failed to be pronounced was due to weather conditions, exceed- ingly heavy fogs. This, it is be- lieved, indicates why the attack on | Dutch Harbor was not more pro- | nounced and followed up but dem- iuna!ruwa further that other islands besides Attu and Kiska and per- | haps other sections of the north- |land, were not invaded. | The observers take cognizance of |the fact that the Navy admitted ‘bad weather prevented any know- ledge of the invasion of Attu and | Kiska until the deeds were actuai- ly completed and clearing weather revealed landing forces. Has Big Fleet Operating Observers are also taking notice |of the announcement that six en=- . lemy vessels were damaged, which | | they state, indicates there must be la large Japanese fleet scattered be- |tween Japan and Alaska, as well as the units defeated at Midway. One observer expressed the opin- ion that Japan may have intended to smash Alaska air bases to pre- aid to Russia in case of a Japanese attack on Russia. Other observers express the opinion the attack on Midway Island and Aleu- |tian Islands may have been for | the purpose of dividing American | sea forces and calling north por- | tions of the forces in the South Pa- | citic Canadian obseryers still believa an attack was planned on western | canada, Prince Rupert perhaps, and | | { { | | | | WASHINGTON ) vent (Continued on Page Two) DEFENSIVE STIFFENING IN RUSSIA House Gro[lpVShelves Ac- Nazis Are Pushed Back in Kharkov Sector, Say Soviet Dispatches MOSCOW, June 16—The three- day German assault attempt to the important Donets river in the Kharkov sector has been balked by Russian hill top defenses, according to today’s battlefront dis- patches. The Nazis have now been forced back on the defensive, the Soviet claimed. They also say they have smashed 180 German tanks on that front. Around the Sebastopol line, Red dispatches say that the defenses have stiffened, and tbac the Ger- {mans have massed seven artillery n would regiments on the main line of as- onsault in an effort to batter down the Russian fortification,