The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1943 VOL. LX., NO. 9232. FRESH NAII . ATTACKS ARE BEATEN BACK Soviets Hofig 25-Mile Corridor Between Enemy Troops MOSCOW, Jan. 5. — The Red| Army's middle Don pincers are re- ported to be closing in on a second large German force west of Stalin- grad despite terrific counter-attacks by fresh Nazi forces hurled into the fight to save the hard-pressed for- ward garrisons. A powerful force of German tanks and infantry attacked yesterday in a grim effort to reach one isolated pocket of their troops in the Don River bend sector, but the thrust was repelled. Meanwhile, battlefront dispatches reported the Russian occupation of Chernishkov on the rail line between Likhaya, German air base, and Dherniskovskaya, 40 miles further north, capturing 17 enemy planes, two million shells and a half-million 4Conun|;;d_;xrxipage Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON" (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON—Dumped on the doorsteps of the Interior and Jus- tice departments last week was one of the most deep-rooted gquestions affecting the American people—con- tinuance of military rule in Hawaii for more than one year after Pearl Harbor. The problem was dumped by Ha- waiian civil Governor Ingram M. Stainback, Hawaiian Delegate Far- rington, and the islands’ Attorney General Garner Anthony. Arriving in Washington to oppose them, came Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons the “Military Governor” and his execu- tive, Brig. Gen. Thomas.H. Green, a former stable sergeant, who now admits to friends that he is “the man on horseback.” The report which Hawaiian civil officials have brought to Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Attorney Geneyal Biddle is such that they are demanding that the White House restore Hawaii to civilian control. This report cites chapter and verse to show that at a time when we are fighting to restore the four free- doms to the world, these freedoms are not respected in one part of the United States. The press is not free, labor has lost its traditional rights, justice is meted out by the provost courts, trial by jury nas disappeared, and government by civil authorities has yielded to a military control. MUZZLED NEWSPAPERS So far as they are permitted to express themselves, the citizens of Hawali are up in arms. The Hono- lulu Star--Bulletin dared to write an editorial mildly eriticizing the military control, and was told that the offense would not be tolerated | The press is completely controlled by the military, which through a “licensing system” to publishers can starve out a paper at any time by withholding newsprint. The favored organ of the mili- tary governor is a former Japanese newspaper which, under the title “Nippu Jiji,” was printed half in Japanese, half in English. Like other Japanese newspapers, it was closed down for a period, now has beer revived as the “Hawaii Times.” Tt is giving enthusiastic support to the military regime. , DOGS ARE REGULATED After Pearl Harbor no one ob- jected to authoritative military dis- cipline. But since then, with Jap airplane carriers almost vanished from the Pacific and the Navy an- nouncing the Japs unable to take even the Solomons, the regularly| constituted Hawaiian Governmer: | believes that military rule should end. Instead, Army control extends over | i the personal life of everyone in the |, (Continued on Page Four) MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY T | AMERICANS L Reds Have Tra Thumbnail of War, Frontline Briefs —By the Office of Direct to T! LONDON.—British bombers at-| tacked the industrial Ruhr section | of western Germany Sunday nigm‘ and Allied planes were over Ger- many again Monday night, the British Air Ministry announced this morning. Three bombers were lost in Sunday night raids. NORTH AFRICA—An American reconnaissance by Allied armored units in the Medjez El Bab area of Tunisia was made without en- countering any effective resistance. Allied armored units penetrated Italian and German positions about five miles in each direction, north- cast and southeast of Medjez El Bab, LONDON. — The Germans lost| two planes in light forays over| the coastal sections of England Sunday night and Monday after- noon. The damage caused by the bombs dropped was slight and there were no casualties. | LONDON. — Thirty - eight Nazi| fighters were shot down by Am—i crican four-engined bombers dur- | Ing the raid, the heavy daylight attack Sunday, on St. Nazaire, the Nazi sub base. Seven -American | Bombers were lost in the raid. The | American General in Command of | the bomber flight rode in the lead- ing plane and returned safely to an English base, although his omber was riddled by anti-aircraft oullets. NEW BRITAIN. — A Liberator bomber dropped 1,000-pound bombs on the Gasmata airdrome and an Allied reconnaissance unit strafed a Jap schooner in nearby Jacqui- not Bay. War Information 'he Empire columns at two points in Central Burma. CHUNGKING.—A Chinese com- | P BIG FLOOD RECEDING IN OREGON llen Are Killed, Thousands Homeless, Damages in Millions munique announces that new casu- | alties were inflicted on the Japa- | nese in three Central China Pro- vinces in fighting on New Year's Eve and New Year’s Day. The en- gagements took place near Sinyang, in Honan Province; near Kewichia, in Anhwei Province, and in the vicinity of Macheng, Hupeh Pro- vince. CAIRO.—Tunisian ports of Tunis and Sousse have been bombed again by Allied air forces. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR- TERS.—Allied planes opened a new drive with bombing and strafing attacks while ground troops. are being re-grouped for an all-out land assault on the Papuan Pen- insula of New Guinea. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR- TERS.—The Japanese airdrome at Lae has been strafed and three grounded planes destroyed. Fires were also set. MOSCOW.—The Germans have been driven from two important transportation centers in the Mid- dle Don area; the airbase at Cher- nushlovskaya and the rail center of Chernishkov have been taken by the Russians and much booty taken, including 17 planes. CAIRO.—Marshal Rommel is re- ported erecting Nazi defenses at Misurata, about 110 miles east of Tripoli. Air activity in Tunisia has PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 5—The worst Willamette River flood in years ebbed slowly today, leaving 10 persons dead or missing and hundreds homeless. Thousands of acres of rich farmland were under water. The largest river in western Oregon, the Willamette, remained | above flood level for about half its length. Health authorities, fearing an out- break of typhoid, rushed vaccine to McMinnville, Corvallis and Eugene. Water sources of many small com- munities west of Salem to Eugene were reported contaminated. The damage from the flood was estimated in the millions. The flood has held sway for more than a week. It was feared earlier that the flood crests surging down the river into | Portland, loaded with loose logs from broken up rafts and other debris, might endanger the piers, but the water receded before much damage was done here. The wooden superstructure of a dam at Oregon City collapsed Sun- day, dumping a river barge and a towboat over the falls and per-| mitting a milllon feet of logs to swirl down to Portland where pre- cautions were being taken to pre- vent jams. The Portland harbor patrol had reported earlier that one or two log rafts containing a million feet of timber had broken loose in the Salem area and passed Oregon City in the night. If the boom held together, it. was feared that the bridges upon which the city depends to cross the town might be taken out. been reduced because of severe sandstorms, it is reported. | EEREC O AL | Dakar Gives Allied Supply Lines "Safely Zone™ A o v | STATUTE MILES AT EQUATOR ATLANTIC OCEAN . RIO DE JANEIRO Africa (lined area), with the exception of Tunisi. sea supply lanes (black arrows), to Africa and Suez. battle zones and provides a port from which to battle the U-boat menace in the South Atlantic. CASABLANCANY) ‘Mé‘CE?k\\E‘l AGHEILAS L CANARY %, & 15 b SPAIN( »° GIBRALTAR BIZERTE SPANISH T\ 0N = LI 0, LIBERIA _ASCENSION ST.HELENA TRINIDAD 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN CAPE TOW! It shortens the UITALYS TUNIS TUNISIA o CAIRO BYA Availability of Dakar (A), as an Allied transport base makes an Allied camp of all French West and North It also gives the Allies a valuable base for guarding route for flying bombers to the The net effect is to make easier the problem of supplying Allied armies fighting the Axis near Tunis and Bizerte. BurialoIaJapFAlhié‘;r' " | MOSCOW.—The Russian offen- sive drive in the Caucasus is gain- ing momentum despite torrential rains, but the Soviet spearheads have struck west and north of re- captured Mozdok and are now ap- proaching Prokhladnenski. In the city of Stalingrad, the Red Army continues to destroy German for- tifications in the factory areas. On the central front, the Soviets con- tinued to beat back all German thrusts and have recaptured sev- eral villages. NAZI FLIERS AP Wrifer's INSUICIDE Impression AIRATTACK Of N. Africa Use Risingm Tadtics on Bases Conclusion on Land, Fortresses - Lose Air Trip Along All 38 Plane; Fronts . LONDON, Jan. 5. — Growing| By WES GALLAGHER ‘rantic as a result of-the astound-| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ng ability of American flyers to NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 5. — Adolf WASHINGTON.—The Navy an- aounces that torpedo boats, in the hird attack within 24 hours on Japanese destroyers prowling in the Solomon Islands waters, tor- pedoed one and possibly three of the warships. NEW DELHI. — RAF fighter dlanes attacked the Japanese-occu- pied villages in the Rathedaung area of Akyab Province, Burma, and strafed railroad cars and truck | | | The declaration applies even to AXIS-HELD PROPERTYTO BERESTORED French National Commit- fee Serves Nofice on Dictators WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The 17 Allied belligerent governments of the French National Committee " have ' served notice on the Axis that the property rights of the countries now occupied by the Axis will be restored | to the rightful owners when the Axis | is ejected. | It was emphasized that this has!| ,gg reference to all property rights or !interests which changed hands| through enemy action “whether such | of a Jap flier shot down somewhere in Alaska. 1 Below is the cross transfers or dealings have taken the | erected to mark the final resting place of the enemy flier. i(orm of open looting or plunder, or | transactions of an apparently legal | form.” such transfers of property “the | purport of which was voluntarily pound Nazi bases in the huge Fly- ing Fortresses that Nazi pilots have found almost impossible to down, the Germans haVe resorted to us- ing new “suicide” tactics and shot down seven Flying Fortresses in the raid on St. Nazaire Sunday. The London Daily Express made his report this morning after the | American Air Force refused to comment on the raid. The Express said the toll was the heaviest yet suffered by the famous Fortresses on a raid. The Americans were blasting at a Nazi sub base. The Express said that the Am- erican general in command of the bomber base rode in the Fortress leading the attack and that 38 Nazi fighters werc shot down or lest in the new suicide technique. Two of our bombers were airplane bombs in this sector. The Russians appeared to be with- (Continued on Page Two) said to| '::l:::r! avempt fo keagithe .Me,dl' |effected,” such as the disposal of nean blocked to Allied shipping homes, busine: = /has turned the Tunisian war into a : e Orlsecl{utles Bhoe | major effort. Thousands of German ?x::rs":;ere mEan mt, slgning |and Italian troops have been de- 4 ! ployed from Bizerte to the Tripoli- | tanian border along with a part of ithe first line strength of the Ger- SIO(K 0“0“"0"5 jman Air Force. | e Aled This is purely my personal con-| NEW YORK, Jan. 5. — Closing clusion, based on a 2,100-mile trip quotation of Alaska Juneau mine on the war front in a jeep, topped stock today is 3!2, American Can | with another 700 miles of travel in|71%, Anaconda 247%, Bethlehem {a Flying Fortress, much of it on a|{Steel 56, Commonwealth and South- bombing mission over Tunis. jern %, Curtiss Wright 7%, Inter- These are the main impressions I {national Harvester 59%, Kennecott |got: 129, New York Central 10%, Northern , Frst—The constant threat of rain|Pacific 7%, United States Steel 48, and then real rain, will make Allied | Pound $4.04. | tank warfare impossible in northerr: | ~—— | Tunisia until late in February. There | DOW, JONES AVERAGES jare only a few main roads leaving, The following are today’s Dow, Tunis and Bizerte and the ground | Jones averages: Industrials, 119.70; between is nothing but & muck that | rails, 28.03; utilities, 14.75. -will mire the lightest tanks. ) — e BUY DEFENSE BONDS McNuII Virfifii Dmalor U.5. Manpower;Scope of Big Job Becoming Clear By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. - Of all | the recent shake-ups in our war- | time government, it seems to me that by far the most important is the appointment of Paul V. McNutt as virtual dictator of manpower. No one could read the 13 points of President Roosevelt’s directive re- anizing the War Manpower Com- mission, with McNutt as chairman without realizing thet it could well be that McNutt controls the des- tinies of more of us than any other sinzle man in the United States. First, it should be understood that McNutt has no power to draft labor. | That will take additional legislation But through his controls of hiring (through the now vitally important U. S. Employment Agency) and of Selective Service, his power migit well amount to just that However, it doesn't require specu lation to see just how important to every one of us McNutt is to be Using omy ugures that McNutt himself has given out recently, the scope of his job becomes clear Before the end of this year, about one half of the total population of the United. States, and I do mean (Continued on an:F‘l\"e; IR ATTACKS AREMADEON MANY AREAS In South Pécifif, Warfare| by Aerial Forces ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 5—South Pa- cific warfare was confined mostly to air attacks on Monday with the Japs pretty well cleaned out of the Buna area. Medium bombers dropped 300~ pounders on Lae and heavy bomb- ers dumped 1,000-pounders on Gas- mata airdrome in New Britain, in- flicting heavy damage. A Jap supply boat’ strafed off the coast. Ground troops occupied their time in cleaning up in Buna and pressed the attack on the few remaining Japs at Ananada Point, northwest of Buna - Bing Croshy HomeBurns Complefely Crooner Loses $250,000 in Hollywood Blaze Sunday Night HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5.-—Charred framework and mass-blackened de- bris is all that remains of crooner was also Bing Crosby's 20-room colonial man- | sion, his valuable collection of musical recordings, golf awards and horse racing trophies. The residence was gutted by fire Sunday night. The flames were believed to have started from a short circuit while Mrs. Crosby and her four sons were dismantling the Christmas tree decorations. The loss was tentatively set at $250,000. Mrs. Crosby and the chil- | dren ran safely from the blazing| structure to a neighbor’s home. Crosby, who was on a golfing date with Fred Astaire, rushed home when notified of the fire, only to find his home in ruins, ASH OUT ON GUADALCANAL ed Second Larg e Nazi Force 150 ENEMY - KILLED IN NEWFIGHT JFighti'ng U. 5. Soldiers | Take Over Strafegic Heights | WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Amer- ican troops on Guadalcanal Island | are beginning to go to work on the | Jap forces on this strategic island | and have gained a vital high ground | position overlooking their airfield |from the southwest. | The new gains were made after | the fighting Americans repulsed six |enemy counter-attacks, killing 150 | Japs. | The occupation of new positions !southwest of the airfield constituted what appeared to be the first im- | portant advance of American ground | forces on the islands in weeks. Heretofore the Americans had en- gaged only in widespread patrol |activity which gained little terri- | tory, but took a heavy toll of their |starving and more or less isolated Jap opponents on the western and southern flanks of the American position protecting the Guadalcanal airfield. ‘The immediate purpose of the new advance in the vicinity of Mt Austen, & 1,500-foot peak four miles scuthwest of the airfield, was to prevent the Japs from bombarding the field from. the. heights. JAPS BEATEN BACK TRYING SNEAK MOVES | | | [ | Monday Mostly Done {Destroyers Frustrated in " Landing Drums, Sup- | plies, Guadalcanal | WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Secre- tary, of Navy Frank Knox today told the conference of newspapermen |that Jap destroyers reached the | waters off the northwestern end of | Guadalcanal Island last Saturday |but apparently did not make any |landing but did unload some metal | drums and supplies, a few of which probably drifted ashore the next morning. | American torpedo motor boats and |planes from the Guadalcanal air- | field went out where the destroyers |had been and sank all the drums | they could find. Secretary Knox said the Jap de- stroyer squadron was under attack about 275 miles from the approach |to Guadalcanal and apparently the i squadron’s purpose was landing of | supplies and possible reinforcements | for the Jap troops virtually stranded i there, | The original 10 destroyers were |attacked early-last Sunday after- | noon south of Shortland Island by {a flight of Army Flying Fortresses However, the bomb hits could not be observed. JRABRERRVS 45T | German Ship |Is Sent Down On Atlantic LONDON, Jan, 5—A large Ger- man vessel filled with raw ma- terial has been sunk in the Atlan- the British War, Ministry an- unced tonight, The sinking was done by the 5400-ton British cruis- r Scylla. 3 e 72 e FOUND DEAD Apparently the' victim of expo- ure. Axel . Christansen, longtime resident, fisherman and mechanic the Wrangell community, was heeently found in the old Case Build- ing where he had probably gone to escape the cold. of