The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1942, Page 1

_the Japs are driven out of the Aleu- - Johnston, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 23. 1942 VOL. LIX., NO. 9068. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Better Protection Alaska Coast Now Urged DRIVE JAPS ~ OUT OF HERE SAYSMcNARY Secrefary Knox Promises| Added Coastal De- | fenses Soon BELIEVES KISKA : BASES TEMPORARY Says AHempt Will Be| Made to Regain Islands | as Weather Clears |; WASHINGTON, June 23—Sena-| tor Charles L. McNary of Portland, | Oregon, says that he has been as-| sured by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox that protection of the|o Western coastline will be “immedi- ately strengthened and enlarged.” Expressing concern about the Jap inroads in the Aleutian Islands and the shelluigs along the Oregon and British Columbia coasts, Mc- Nary said that he has urged upon Knox the necessity of protection for the Pacific Coast States and Alaska against further Jap. aggression, : McNary said that Knox told him the Navy is alert to the situation, | but that he thought the incident off the Oregon coast is an isolalvd‘ one. McNary told Knox that unless tians and Northwestern Coastal; waters promptly “we might as well | cancel the advantages gained in the Midway victory” The Senator said that Knox ad-| vised him that in the Navy's opin- | ion, the Jap establishments at Kis-| ka are only temporary and intend-| ed for observation post uses and | that when the weather clears an| effort will be made to drive them off Kiska and other islands in the Aleutians. —ee+*>——— The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW / PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN | the has big WASHINGTON — For years U. S. Chamber of Commerce been considered the citadel of business and the nation’s most vit- riolic group of labor-baiters. For years its officers have hurled an-| nual, semi-annual and sometimes| monthly diatribes at Roosevelt's policies and at labor unions. Therefore you can get ‘some idea of their astonishment .when the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Eric called on Phil Murray head of the CIO and Bill Green of the AFL. Mr. Johnston, newly elected pres- ident of the U. S. Chamber, is its | first president to come from west of Chicago. He is from Spokane, Wash. Also he is 44 and the Cham- ber’s youngest president. His talks with Green and Murray | were as refreshing as his compara- tive youth. “This may surprise you,” he said,| “but I think we businessmen have a lot in common with labor, and I'd like to propose that we get together on several things. I think I can even show you that already we agree on quite a few things. “My organization has done some things wrong in the past, but I, think I can get most members to| agree now on recognition of unions. “That doesn't mean the closed | shop necessarily. But here’s the first thing I think we can all agree on—cutting out name calling. We've called labor a lot of names and you've thrown a lot of brick- bats at us. I think the atmosphere would be a lot better if both sides cut this out and gave the other the| benefit of the doubt.” This sound suggestion struck an| immediate responsive chord in both‘ { (Continued on Page Pour) | |Germans have suffered 2000000‘ | casualties agaist 4,000,000 losses to Sebasiopol Still Holds $42 BILLION £~ 0ff Germans WAR MEASURE Soviet Defenders Stop An- | Largest Al'l;l;'— Appropria-| other Drive Against tion in History Will Black Sea Base Be Made Soon ion tstonains. Sevastopol nas MORE IHA“W(::lTD WiR 1 OF stopped another drive by the Gel- mans to put o wedge into the de- | fenses of the fortress of the Black | Ben. i (. zapr todag. 'Brings fo $205 Billion Bill for Defense, War, in Three Yaars line positions and are throwing in| | new tanks and fresh troops, but| wASHINGTON, June 23—A $42 Military dispatches say that the Nazis, holding a great superiorily: have yet failei to reach into thelpjllion Army supply bill, the larg- depths of the defenses of the big|est in history, has been sent to | | in manpower and machines, have succeeded in penetrating into front Black Sea base. the House by its Appropriation { Meanwhile in a Soviet summary|Committee, to finance an Army | of the first vear of war against|strength of 4,500,000 by July 1, e : . Tt was asserted that the|1943 and to send war material t0) e i Shss i o - German: 2 other United Nations countries. | This measure amounts to more 5 _|than this country’s direct outlay the Red Army. but that the Ger-| "iuoy war 1 and boosts to $205 Above is a scene of Attu Island, Aleutians, where Japs are reported to have made an invasion. lage is in this section. Nestled beneath snow covered mountains, Attu Island is just about 700 miles from the nnrthrrn tip of the Nlppon s l(urile chain. mans are no longer able to launch |00 the total authorized or ap- §. SEnergl jorfedalys | propriated for defense and war in | the last three years. The committee explained this| :amount is for necessary expendi- | tures, quoting Lieut. Gen. Mc- | Narey, the Army's Deputy Chief jof SUNK NEAR | Staff “The War Department re- ' | The omnibus bill provides for $12 EAST (oAsllbunon for financing war material lmost critical this country has cvcr | encountered.” |gards our present situation as the | for the United Nations, bringing to Probable Jap Mlack Was Expeced atNome On June 17, Is Report | sons missing, 88 Persons Missing, In-| cluding 18 U.S. Troops, in Latest Torpedoing {BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Possibly the heaviest loss of life 000 planes this year and 125,000 in 17: in a single sinking off the Atlantic Coast since ine United States en- tered the war was disclosed wlm the Navy’s announcement that medium sized American freighter went down June 15 with 88 per- two of whom, U. S. soldiers, are known to be dead. This is the 294th ship sunk in the Western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. The sinking was revealed less |than a day after the Navy an- nounced it has been convoying mer- chant shipping along the East coast for approximately 30 days. The freighter was hit by two | torpedoes 75 miles off the U. S. Coast and sank so rapidly that| none of its lifeboats could be launched. Many of those missing are believed to have been trapped in cabins below decks. However, 81 persons, including 23 U. 8. soldiers were rescued an brought to East Coast ports where| the vessel uearly was safe when the attack occurred. ” The Navy’s convoy system is sup- {almost $63 billion the total lend |lease aid thus far approved by Con- | gress. It also includes $11 billion for 23,550 planes and spare parts. The Army Chief's committee | joined in assuring Congress that | the allotment will complete the War | Department’s part in the President’s | | production program calling for 60,- | 1943. SHIP SUNK - DAY TIME, ~ OFF COAST, | Argentine Vessel Is Sent Down-Hull Tells of ‘ Nazi Terrorism WASHINGTON, June 23—Secre- [tary of State Cordell Hull declared| |this afternoon that the sinking of he Argentina freighter Rio Ter-, reo, 120 miles out of New York, ‘Ls one more instance illustrating | | the policy of frightfulness and ter- is| rorism the German Command Information reaching Juneau|Other information about movements from Nome, received today, indicates | of ships, troops, supplies and equip- that the far northern section was | ment should be kept secret if known. expecting a Jap attack on June 16 | The situation is serious and attack and 17 is probable from information ob- Unable to broadcast a warning to | {ained from military intelligence. Nome residents, the Army’s mm-\ P manding officer there issued the| “If transports arrive, people following warning through mevshould not broadcast the informa- Nome Nugget, newspaper, on June | tion as the enemy has ears and is always searching for information of this type. your talk alone may seem of no value to you but to the enemy this talk is valuable and may cost us the lives of many men as well as to | “Part of the Japanese fleet has | moved north from Kiska but the |location is unknown due to bad weather conditions. The ships in the Kiska area are under steam It may be possible that | The balance of the fleet is mb.sing from the Kiska area. The Nuni | Pribilof and Andreanof islands were scouted but no sign of the enemy ‘was Iound. Heavy fog concealed op- ns. Attack Expected “Large areas are covered by the ‘rog which is hampermg opemlmm 1‘anlol Bay Fishing . Season Opens; (rews Are Mostly Alaskans| | posed to cover the Eastern sealundertaking to carry out on v.he1 B R I T I S H E R S | frontier from Maine to Florida. Among ihe inissing are 18 soj- diers, TEN ARRIVE HERE WITH STAR AIR LINES MONDAY Bringing ten passengers for Ju- neau, a Star Air Lines plane, pilot- ed by Bud Brown, with Elmer | Nicholson as co-pilot, arrived here from Anchorage yesterday afternoon and left two hours later for the re- turn flight to the Westward. Those arriving here with the Star Air Lines plane were Tom F. King, Mrs. Tom F. King, Mrs. Jack Wat- | erworth and two children, Charles Sanford, Paul Sidner, Fred Decker, Ivan Blomberg and Jack Merritt. Taking passage for Anchorage was Wwilliam Cashen and for Yakutat Walter S. Beard and Robert G. | Walter. ‘ ———-—-——— BUY DEFENSE S1AMPS | Atlantic. Secretary Hull made the state-| |ment at a conference with the inewsmen and said that accmdmg to official reports the 4800 | Argentine vessel was attacked and |sunk in broad daylight thus elim-| | inating - the opportunity of the Nazis to hide behind the pretext, |the vessel could not be identified. ‘ . | GREEN GOES WESTWARD ON INSPECTION TRIP Richard S. Green, Sanitary En- gineer of the Territorial Depart- ment of Heaith, left yesterday for a short routine inspection trip in Sitka. | Mr. Green, who was loaned to the Department by the United| States Public Health Service, will make routine inspections in Sitka ;a.s well as a municipal sanitation survey. He will retwrn to Juneau the end of the week. PRAB MY L R ERNEST OBERG SOUTH FOR VISITI OF MONTiH Ernest Oberg is a passenger foe | the. south today and expects to be absent for at least one month, ARE AROUSED, LIBYAN ROUT |Positively Dissafisfied at ' Military Leadership- Attack Flares | LONDON, June 23— Dissatisfac- tion with Great Britain’s military | leadership flared openly in the House of Commons today when it received the first accounting of ithe defeat in Libya, although heart- |ening news came that Britain’s des- |ert fighters are being reinforced land more reinforcements are on |the way. | The House of Commons learned that the naval side of the Libyan struggle cost Great Britain seven «Conunued on Page Three) bring destruction on your town “These bulletins are not issued to alarm you, but to impress upon you that war is on our flank and can HOUSE GIVEN Where Japs Are Reporled fo Have Landed - Attu vil- ROOSEVE[T CHURCHILL MAKE PACT Objective of Present Con- ference in Washing- fon Is Announced | WASHINGTON, June 23—Presi-| |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill formally announce the ob- jective of the present conference is to obtain at the “earliest possible time a maximum concentration of Allied war power upon the enemy.” The two heads of the American and British Nations centered at- tention on the vital problem of shipping as they went ahead map- ping plans for the United Nation’s __ferring to the campaign | China, AMERICAN PLANES ENGAGED "~ AGAINST AXIS AND JAPAN IN *WIDElY SEPARATED SECTORS Four Mofored Craft ng Defense of Egyphan Bor- - Way 500 Miles Over der Augmented by . Tough Routes Fliers from U. §. 'ARE REPORTED ON | SUCCESSFUL RAIDS MADE ON BENGASI FRONT IN ORIENT Advancmg Germans Ital- Defending “Forces Said fo ians Seen-Strafing Im- mediately Starts Have Stopped Nip- pon Invaders i CAIRO, June 23—The United States Army has hurled big four | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Giant four motored United States | | Army transports, winging 500 miles | motored Consoiidated bombers in across one of the world's toughestthe defense of Egypt doing exten- sive damage on a raid on the Axis supply base at Bengasi, according | flying routes, are reported bolster-| ing the Chinese Armies amid in- |dications of slightly improved but|to a disclosure made by the Brit- 1ish Military Headquarters. The communique also discloses | still critical outlock on: the Chinese | fighting front. [that the battered British Eighth in East | | The Chinese Army spokesman, re- | Army is expecting a drive east- said: "The Japanese have ward into Egypt at any time. taken a number of cities from us| The German led troops that cap- {but our troops are penetrating en-|sured Tobruk are reported to have ‘emv flanks in the rear. The hau,lermm,ed up to the border. l‘. anything but decisive however.”| ynited States fliers have joined | The spokesman said the Chmexe the RAF in heavy raids made on |troops have stopped the Jap in-|Bengasi piers and railroads and vasion columus along the viul\m,my fires were started. routes in Kwangtung dnd Kiangsi A constant aerial patrol is being Province and even with the new maintained in addition tothe bomb- reinforcements the enemy has|ings by strafing American and RAP brought up trom the South Seas, fliers as a bid to keep the Nazis the enemy has been unable to cap-iand their Italian satellites getting !ture the narrow 50-mile gap held get for | by the Chinese along the strategic| ‘Cheknng Kiangsi lewny BIG FLEET OF AIRCRAFT an expected quick thrust against Egypt. The RAF nbservers reported large | numbers of Iwalian and German ve- hicles, presumably carrying troops, in the viciniy of Sidi Azeiz, 12 miles west of the border. These vehicles were immediately attacked by fighters and bombers but it is reported a great bulk of the ens emy strength still seems some G0 mllus west of the border. | Jones averages: Iraus 2358, udlities 11.78, develop overnight in the center. |war strategy.w Shipping experts of the two Gov- |ernments were summoned to the | White House for a conference which is described as one of the most important of the series held dur- ing the past five days. Would Evacuate “In war, women and children can- tcannnued on Page Three) id “it was quite an ex- nference and the subject was China, in a military Lendl'd or cour: TOdL\Vb conference with the 15 ON MOVE pypgcr am ' American Planesof All De-| scriptions Braving Ele- | ments and Japs ATED PRESS) tay from New Del- ATTACK INTO EGYPT SOON (BY ASSOC Dispatches to hi sald huge American bombers and The White House permitted dis- A . | closure that President Roosevelt and medium bombers, fighters and Enemy GaflleTS fOl‘ F'ght | Churchill conferred yesterday with freighters are moving now to India 7t [ 5. Soong, China’s Foreign Minister and China despite the increasing Joward Nile, Suez Canal vho has been in this country for fury of monsoon, rains and the . |some time. |alertness of Japanese fighter squad- —Pafa(huhs's Ready | Presidential Secretary Stephen rons in Burma. | LONDON, June 23—The rapidly gathering enemy might on the borders of Egypt has banished any doubt that the Axis will strike swiftly and in force at the hastily RS PP ST Submarines ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June ’3—\::.:;:];:‘, waglaiiniied by the . manned Hritish line barring its The Bristol Bay fishing season op- | In way to the Nile and Suez Canal, a ened yesterday, three days prior to o L] L] military commentator here says. the set opening. R. E. MURPHY MAKES | | He added: “The next move is The opening gave the residents of‘ BUSINESS TRIP TO H obvious. The Germans will attack the Territory a great opportunity to| INTERIOR ALASKA a an I s eastward from Libya toward Egypt show they are able to handle Usska\ R. E. Murphy, Alaska represen- A and probably southward in air fish without assistance from Cali- tative for the duPont Powder Com- fornia and Pacific Northwest fisher- | pany, left today fer the Interior men who heretofore supplied the to spend the next two months vis- bulk of the Bristol Bay fishing {iting Fairbanks. Anchorage and oth- | r.rews, er communities for his company. This year crews are almost entire- | - - ly recruited from Anchorage, Cor-' ALICE COUGHLIN BACK dova and Southeast Alaska. { FROM SHORT VACATION s'o( K .ouor‘"o"s \ Alice Coughlin has returned to her office in the Department of Unemployment Compensation after borne formations from Crete. They may be attacking now.” London observers estimated that about five divisions of Nazi para- chutists are massed at Crete, which lies about 150 miles north of the | Sent Down Off East | China COGS', Report lk“.‘;:lmn frontiers' defense posi- | g B i g LONDON, June 23—A Reuters dis- WILLIAM CASHEN . {Four of Seven Vessels patch received this afternoon from Chungking declares that United a two weeks' vaéation which she States submarines operating off the NEW YORK, June 23 — Closing {spent in Juneau. east China Coast ::,. re[:ol(ed to REIUR"S HOME quotation of Alaska Juneau mluc‘ Sendeia |have sunk four of seven Japanese stock today is 2%, American Canlol‘&o'x' TO MAKE Tll.ll’ vessels that left Hongkong for A"ER v's" HERE 68'%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem TO WESTWARD TOMORROW | Shanghal, Steel 50%, Commonwealth - and| Clarence Ol:on, Fisheries Super- — - eee William Cashen left yesterday af- Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 3,'visor, plans to leave Juneau tomor- FISHING PARTY MAKES ternoen with Star Air Lines to re- International Harvester 45'%; Ken- row for an inspection trip to Cor-| necott 27%, New York Central 7, dova, Anchorage and Kodiak. Northern Pacific 4%, United States S o ovitaent Steel 45%, Pound $4.04. e 000000000000 . WEATHER REPORT . DOW, JONES AVERAGES L (U. 8. Bureauw) L e Temperaturs Monday, June 22 Maximum 76, Minimum 47 e The following are today's Dow, industrials 103.03, ® |® @ o0 e 9 0 0 0 0 ¢ ¢ & morrow morning. turn to Anchorage after spending the last two weeks visiting his fam- ily and friends in' Juneau and Douglas. Mr. Cashen has been teacher of mathematics in the Anchorage High School for the last five years. - e . BUY DEFENSE BONDS TRIP TO HASSELBORG To spend a day and a half fish- {ing at Lake Hasselborg, Mayor H. 1. Lucas, Dick Dalziel and Jack Garrett left Juneau by Alaska Coastal Airlines yesterday afternoon. | They expect.ie return to town to-