The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9065. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1942 CHURCHILL ARRIVES TO TALK WITH F.D.R. Canada Operating With U. S. Off A SEBASTOPOL | Expect Jap Atfack AUTHORIZED STATEMENT NOW MADE Lt. Gen. Kennefh Stuart Discusses Invasion of Aleutian Bases VICTORIA, B. C., June 19—Roy- al Canadian Air Force squadrons and antiaireraft units of the Can- adian Army have been operating for some days with the United States forces in Alaska. | This is the statement made here | by Lt. Gen. Kenneth Stuart, Chief | of the Canadian Staff. He ar- rived here Tuesday to take over | temporarily, as Commander of the ! Pacific Command. Stuart said he has been author- ized by Defense Minister Ralston | to make the statement. { It is the first time Canadian | forces have been officially known | to have taken part in any oper- ations with the United States Ar-\ I ' | [ \ | i | my, Stuart said. Stuart attached “considerable sig- nificance to the latest Japanese move, It Is an obvious defensive attempt to neutralize, destroy or oc- cupy such air bases in the Aleutians | as can be used for jumping off | points for raids on Japan by shore | based aircraft.” i Stuart also sald: ‘Tt s also true that if Japan can hold its gains in ! the Aleutians, she is much closer | to Canadian objectives than before. | In view of these circumstances il." is idle to say we are not concerned with the developments.” BERLIN SENDS OUT BIG SQUAK LONDON, June 19 — A Reuters | dispatch said it has recorded a Berlin broadcist stating that 13 or | 14 United States aircraft flew over| Turkish territory last night. ——e————— | REV. GALLANT RETURNS | The Rev. Edgar Gallant returned | last night from a trip to ‘Yakutat and is staying now at St. Ann’s| Hospital until transportation is available back to Skagway. The Washingtun% Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—After returning | on the Drottningholm, Leland B. Morris, U. S. charge draffaires in) Berlin, and George Wadsworth, charge in Rome, gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee some | eye-opening slants on international conditions in the Axis countries,| coupled with a blunt warning. Tbef warning was: | “Don’t depend on the peoples of | Germany and Italy revolting against | their masters.” { There is only a long-shot chance of an Axis collapse through rev- olytion, the two diplomats reported. | The German and Italian people, | they said, are under such severe | military rule and surveillance, that it would be extremely difficult to plan, much less carry out, revolts at present. Morris who served in Berlin| about 18 months, also pooh-poohed rumors that the German people are not loyal to Hitler. H “They are weary of war” he| said, “but they are still faithful to, Hitler. Make no mistake about that. They may not consider him the idol they once did, but they are still behind him, Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling himself.” ! Asked about German ‘“morale,”| Morris replied that from the stand- point of loyalty to the Fuehrer, “it was good.” Wadsworth said the Italian people are kept in such subjugation and fear by the Germans that it was difficult to get a true expression of their feelings, though the morale of the Italians definitely was not as good as that of the Germans. (Continued on Page Four) i { | i U.S.E&Ebers A Lady Sprays—for Stockings side view of the inauguration of the first “bare-leg k City beauty salon. Here a girl can choose her them put on by an attendant. As far as Georgina Yeager is concerned those Japs can use their silkworms for You're getting an in: bar” at a New Yorl stockings out of a bottle, have lve her bait—she knows how to sol stocking problem for the duration. RussPress 10 SUSPEND Denounces ASSESSMENT Senfencing, DURING WAR Call Convida{ of Reds in House Takes Action on An- Turkey Bomb Plot nual Work on Claim ""Shocking” for Duration MOSCOW, Tune 19—The Russian WASHINGTON, June 19 — The newspapers denounceds as “shock- House has voted to suspend for the ing”, the sentencingin Ankara, Tur- duration of the war annual assess- key, of two Soviet citizens charged ment work requirements on unpat- with taking part in a miscarried ented mining claims on property | bomb plot against German Ambas- taken over frum the Government. sador to Turkey, Franz Von Papen. The annual assessment work has The defendants, Georgi Pavlow and already been suspended through | Leonid Kornitov, were convicted 1943. Wednesday, each sentenced to —————————— years, Their two co-defendan naturalized Turks from Yugoslavia, S H I p lo S S ES sentenced to 10 years each. Von Papen end his wife escaped serious injury when the bomb ex- ploded near them on an Ankara street on February 24. In Turkey testified for the state and were i | ki Australias Prime Minister Says Alarm Evident with Allies HEYDRICH ASSASSINS SHOTDOWN Found in l%aue Church, Killed While "Resist- ing Arrest” LONDON, June 19—Two men ac-| cused of assassinating Reinhdard | | 4 | | | | | | | i | | i | | Heydrich, known to millions in oc-| |cupied Eurcpe as “The Hangman, G P |and the No, |found in a morning and | arrest.” | This was the announcement made by the Prague radio broadcast picked up here, two hours after |the expiration of the German ul- timatum to the Czechs they must | deliver up the assassins of Hey- |drich or take the consequences. HOUSE OKEHS '8 BILLION $ estapo chief, were| ue church this “shot while resisting ‘ » | Measure Envisions Great-| est Shipbuilding Pro- | gram of History WASHINGTON, June 19 — The {vast eight and a half billion dol- lar ship cons‘ruction measure has passed the House after naval com- mittee members reported that the completion of the program will give |the United States unquestioned su- | premacy on the seas. The measure, envisioning the greatest shipbuilding .program of history, will provide for more than 1500 combatant vessels and thous- ands of smaller craft, including 800 terpedo boats and subchasers. The measure calls for a half mil- lion tons of airplane carriers, a half million tons ¢f cruisers and 900,000 tons of destroyers and destroyer escort vessels, Rep. Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Committee, told his colleagues that the aircraft car- rier has replaced the battleship us the “backbone of the fleet.” Rep. Warren G. Magnuson, of ‘Washington, a member of the Naval Committee and a naval Lieutenant Ccmmander just back from active duty in the Pacific, declared that experience convinces him that “the | need is for more airplane carriers” | NAVAL BILL THEIRS, SAY NAZI HEADS Situation at Black Sea Nav-? al Base Is Dark for United Nations (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's Heacouarters assert that German shock troops are scoring decisive * in piercing the northern defense lines in the of Sebastopol The Nazi command says today that Axis troops attacking on the north of the important port have reached Sewernaja Bight, opposite Sebastopol and that the “entire northern part of the fortress with the exception of one coastal fort in the southwestern sector has fall- en into German hands after 12 sueee. s {days of heavy fighting.” Under siege for eight months, the great Black Sea naval base and the last Russian stronghold in the Crimea, was barring the way to n Nazi thrust into the rich Cau- casus oil fields. The sityation remains hazardous in the Crimean front, but accord- ing to the Russians’ dispatches to- day, the defenders of Sebastopol are still holding stoutly and the dis- patches gave no. confirmation of Nazi claims of wictory. > TAX STAMP ON AUTOS SERVING TWIN PURPOSE Aids Government, Also| Authorizes Motorist fo Purchase Gas TACOMA Wash., June 19—Every motorist who plans to drive his car after June 30 faces probable neces- sity of buying a new $5 federal automobile use tax stamp by thult date or else create his own private | gas shortage. From information re-| leased by Clark Squire, Collector of Internal Revenue, it appears that Uncle Sam has found a way to make every car owner, without a single exception, buy a stamp. Any motorist who doesn’t want to purchase a stamp may as well jack up his car for the duration because he won't get any gas. The Office of Price Administraticn has ad- vised Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering thut possession of a stamp will be neces- sary to procure gascline after the proposed rationing has gone intc effect. | | |tighters shot down one Japanese to confer on the issue of the for- lescort, struck today at Port Mores- | On Siberia in July; Establish Safe Zone CHUNGKING, June 19 — High Chinese quarters declared today that Japan has massed nearly 1,000,000 troops in Manchuria and said new advices indicate the Jap- anese plan to strike Russian Siber- offensive against the Sovief Union It is the consensus among the high quarters here also that the Japanese General Staff prefers to | | postpone furtaer thrusts in the laska BRIT. PRIME MINISTER ON - SECRET TRIP }Heads of Two Nations Con- | ferring Presumably on Second Front ia sometime in July. South Seas in favor of strategy | — Neutral observers however ex- affecting territory nearer Japan, 1| WASHINGTON, June 19—Winston pressed the belief that Japan will is believed the Japanese want 10 Churchill, Great Britain's wartime not risk taking on a new enemy establish a “security zone” against Prime Minister, crossed the Atlantic until the German push against Rus- the hour wher American war pro- [once more to sit down with Prese sin is succeeding and then Japan duction is ready for a full scale |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and offensive against Japan. |chart plans for crushing the Axis, will start the long delayed grand Japs Fail In Thrust At Moresby One Japfingg Lero, Two Bombers Shot Down TOKYO GETS EXCITED ON CONFERENCE Three Exp@s—ions Made | by Japanese on Wash- by Allied Forces ington Confab ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN!| TOKYO, June 19—This Imperial AUSTTRALIA, Jure- 19—Eighteen Japanese Capital - City today flut- Jdpanese bombers madé an unsuc- tered with! nervou§ indecision, de- lcessful attack on Port Moresby, | clarifg in one breath that Church- |New Guinea, yesterday, the second ill's visit to Roosevelt is a “mere illl two days. | political gesture for publicity pur- | Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Head- |poces,” and in the, next that the announces that Allicd‘Anglo-Amerlc‘m heads are “certain | | quarters | zero and two bombers and that two mation of a second front in Eur- Allied planes were lost. ope.” The third z.iess here is that the| THIRD RAID MADE meeting is a “confession of an im- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ‘IN minent crisis in the Allied Camp. dl AUSTRALIA, June 19 — Attacking .- for the third time in the past three | days, Jap heavy bombers, this time | Russia wai's Decision on by’s Harbor installations. | This was the sixty-second raid on | the Allied base of New Guinea. | Allied fighters are reported out- | numbered by the enemy, but Lhei defenders delivered strong opposi- | perhaps by opening a second fight- ing front in Europe. The brief White House announce- ment disclosed that Churchill reached this country secretly and safely for immediate conferences with the President. The announce- ment kept his exact whereabouts a secr Justified Speculation Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told the reporters, without the slightest degree of qualifica- tion, that he thought speculation was “perfectly justified” on the pos- hibility that the momentous delib~ erations of the heads of the two great Allied Powers will touch on the second front.. Churchill's party included Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Major General 8Sir fii’stlnfl Ismay, Deputy Military Secretary to the War Cab- inet. Fateful Decisions It is unofficially stated here that opinion is tkat fateful decisions hang in the balance as Churchill, arriving in the United States for the second time in seven months, conferred with President Roosevelt on win the war strategy, presum- ably the urgency of creating a sec- ond front in Europe. .- ND FRONT TALKS ARE tion. One Allied pilot attacked three | zero fighters, broke up one with | cannon fire and watched another | go diving with smoke pouring from | its motor, - Tobruk Now 18 strong with a formidable fighter | Second Front | Stalin Says U. S., Greaf Britain, Giving Se- rious Aftention MOSCOW, June 19—Joseph V.| | Stalin, in making one of his rare appearances with V. M. Molotov, Foreign Affairs Minister, Supreme Soviet Council that Wash- | . ’om a l Is ington and London are giving “ser- jous attention” to the question of |a second front. ! | | | | | | told the| {Turkish Offlc—i als Deny Annoy Nazis y | MELBOURNE, Australia, June 19 | —Australia’s Prime Minister John |Curtin declared today that heavy shipping losses are beginning to |cause alarm among the Allies. | curtin made no specific mention jof the number of losses or where | they were oceuring. WORLD STIRRED German Charge It Was Deliberate ANKARA, Turkey, June 19—Ger- man charges that four United States bombers which were forced i WASHINGTON | The new stamp was placed on [.‘:nle June 10 at all post offices and |the office of the Collector of In- | ternal Revenue in the district of It is ser- | | Washington and Alaska. 'mlly numbered and should be placed on the windshield of the car along- BE SHIFTED |side the vehicle inspection sticker. |To keep the stamp affixed to the | windshield, it 1s suggested that the | vehicle owner dampen the wind- | shield rather than the adhesive side | down last week in Turkey “deliber- ately flew over Turkey on their! Will Replac;ffiem, Assign of the stamp. As a precaution against loss or AT CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON Capitals Are Excied Over Churchill's Flight fo Meet FDR (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) With the need of Allied counter| blows sharpened by the critical developments in the battles in North Africa and Soviet Crimea, world capitals displayed electric excite- ment in Briush Prime Minister way to objectives on the north coast | of the Black Sea” have been de-| nied after an investigation by Turk- | ish officials. Reports reaching Istanbul said that the big iour-motored Consoli- dated bombers were part of a force which attacked the Rumanian oil center at Ploesti, Black Sea port. | - CHINESE FIGHT MANY THRUSTS, JAPAN FORCES theft, it is suggested the motorist | make a record of the serial num- |ber on his stamp in order that there may be some means of identi- fication to enable him to purchase soline, Only cash will purchase stamps at the post office while Collectors Army Men to Duty with Troops WASHINGTON, June 19 — The| War Department announces that it will reduce the number of offi- cers assigned to duty in Washing-| . 4 ton, replacing them with members will ‘sccept; cash, Post Office money 5 E orders, or certified checks of the new Army Specialist Corps,; A but makes it plain that the new organization will be no haven for|M. D. WILLIAMS IS draft dodgers or job hunters BACK FROM SITKA M. D. Williams, District Engin- | eer for the Aublic Roads Admin- Dwight Dav's, director, and Sec- |retary of War Henry L. Stimson |outlined a policy of selecting pro- Brifish Admit Troops Hold- ing fo Strong Posi- tions af Fort (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the North African front, the British announced today that Rit- chie's armies are holding thel strong positions on the Libyan, Egyptian frontier and in the To- Ibruk sector 80 miles west It is clear, however, that a new siege of Tobruk has begun. year, the city withstood an eight months siege irom the Axis hands Today’s report from the British follows Axis announcements yester- day that the English defenders had split into two sections and were withdrawing from the Egyptian frontier. e DIVORCES ASKED Two suits for divorce were filed in U. 8. District Court today. Ann Weaver asks a divorce from: La|sibly the first time such |n-rmb-:lm, the purpose of He predicted that “Our common | enemy, Hitler, will soon experience at his cost, the results of the ever- ;growmg military collaboration of | Rus: the United States | Great Britain. B Army Men sia, and | at | their (OMING UP London Quarfers Express Views on Churchill's Visit to U. §. LONDON, June 19—London news- papers today hailed it as definite evidence that momentous events are |now in the making and “second front talks are to start” as the re- sult of the secret flight of Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the United States to confer with Presi- dent Roosevelt The London Daily Express says high significance is attached to the fact that Churchill is accompanied by Gen. 8ir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Last month Brookz told the American troops in Northern Ireland that opportunity fight will “come soon.” Other quarters in London sald to lit is believed that one of Church- |ill's main purposes is to seek noca | Last | May Have Eve Mass | | | | | | NEW YORK, June 19—Archbish-| {op Spellman, of New York and| | Military Vicar of Catholic Churches | |in the United States, announces| that afternoon and evening masses jwill be permitted to men in ()u-l {United States Armed Forces w““i lcannot attend morning mass | Church officials said this is pos-| help from the United States, help especially in holding the Middle t against the expected German thrusts in Libya toward Egypt and in the Soviet Ukraine-Caucasus campaign. - STEVE McCUTCHEON RETURNS FROM SITKA Steve McCutcheon, Assistant Ter- ritorial Commissioner of Labor, re- turned yesterday afternoon from a short trip to Sitka. He was called to Sitka by the Sitka Fish Exchange interpreting CHUNGKING, June 19—Chinese armies are doggedly fighting against a dozen or more Japanese invasion columns, chiefiy in the castern and | southern provinces, Churchill's new flight across the Atlantic to the United States to confer with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. e BUY DEFENSE BOND> fessional or ‘echnical personnel for administrative duties, primarily for the purpose of releasing army of- ficers for service with the troops. All political or pepsonal consider- ations will be rigidly excluded in the new organization. istration, returned to Juneau yes- terday afternvon after a trip ‘o Sitka by air on official business. - — Rationing of existing stocks of' rubber in Argentina has just been ordered by the Government. Pay P. Weaver on the grounds of {sion has been granted in the Unit-| o6 of the clauses in the award incompatability. Esteban Palisa asks ed States - |given in the cispute between cold and cold | storage workers storage on the grouncs of desertion. Malta, about twice the size °‘}0peratom by E. S. Jackson, coneil= R the District of Columbia, has a jator for the U. S. Department of Chicago's six major depots han-|population of 205000, exclusive of 'Labor, who acted as arbitrator in dle 1,294 pasenger trains daily. me garrison. the case. legal separation from Anita Palisa |