The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9235. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —_PRICE TEN cos ALASKA FLIER MISSING, FIVE PASSENGERS NIPPON SHIPS WITH TROOPS ARE BOMBED Eighteen mees Pro- fecting Convoy Also Reported Destroyed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 8—The last strong point of the Japs on Papua Peninsula, New Guinea, has been enveloped at Cape Sanananda, bringing near to complete destruc- tion the enemy's Papuan army, once 15,000 strong. Also reported in Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s noon communique to- day is the destruction of two Jap transports and 18 Zero planes off New Guinea. Said MacArthur: “Our air force made repeated attacks on an enemy convoy approaching Lae—transport vessels and escort- ing warships—totaling 10 vessels. “One transport of 14,000 tons, heavily loaded with troops, was sunk with all on board in a night attack and another large transport was disabled with a direct hit which enveloped it in flames. It later sank. “A third large transport was heavily hit by 500-pound bombs. “Strong forces of enemy fighters attempted to protect the convoy. Eighteen of these were definitely destroyed and five others were probably shot down and four more damaged. “Our losses were relatively light. Our attacks are continuing.” CONGRESS T0-GET SOCIAL SECURITY DATA,FACTS SOON WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. — The President disclosed at a press con- ierence today that he expected to submit some data and facts to Congress on the social security question but said he didn't know whether he will recommend any specific legislation. He suggested to reporters that they wait and see what he does. fifilasfiifi@tan Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—The 78th Con- gress, just opened, will live up to all advance notices of curtailing the Government's non-war spend- ing. But despite talk about a coali- tion of Republicans and conserva- tive Democrats, don't look for any serious tampering with New Deal economic reforms. With a Presidential election com- ing up in 1944, the Republican leadership in both Houses will take no chances of antagonizing labor by supporting efforts of anti-New Deal Democrats to repeal the Wag- ner Labor Relations Act and the 40-hour week. Both of these laws will remain on the. books. Here's a rountup legislative pre- view of the new session: LABOR: The only legislation af- fecting organized labor with a good chance of being enacted will be a bill outlawing racketeering in labor unions, and requiring inter- national unions to register with the government and publicly report their finances. FARM: The farm bloc will have the upper hand in both Houses, is almost certain to force through legislation further increasing par- ity price ceilings on farm products. Such a step will open the door to runaway inflation, but farm bloc leaders are confident they have the votes to put it over anyway. Agricultural spokesmen already are busy behind the scenes trying to negotiate a logroll, whereby they will withdraw their opposition to the 40-hour week if laborites re- ciprocate on the proposal for high- er parity ceilings. 2 TAXES: Despite Senate agita- tion for a national sales tax, Con- gress will not accept it. However, don't be surprised if the House Ways and Means Committee works out a new pay-as-you-go formula for income taxation, probably call- Flight deck crew of a U. S. aircraft carrier is pictured as they snatch a few minutes’ rest between air operations during recent battles off the Solomons. The men, all dressed in anti-flash chemically treated suits and steel helmets, are glad for a few moments’ respite. They | are all veterans of numerous Fleet actions. Meat Dealers, OPA Still . Hashing Over Christmas Turkey Prices in Juneau ! i | | The Alaska Office of Price Ad- as _land forces of the motorized infan- Mrs. Hermann said that the or- | ! and Juneau meat ! | dealers are still at odds over the | | price of turkey. Mrs. Mildred R. i { Hermann, Alaska Director, said to- | |plaints from Juneau housewives | {that dealers are continuing to | charge the same prices in effect | B Y 1 9 4 4‘pnm to the December 22 OPA |order, Regulation 288. These prices }&‘vrr- agreed on for Thanksgiving % S |turkeys and reaffirmed by the 1G|V,€S Addition to Spee(h‘\""‘,’_“ office here on December 16 | The Director yesterday served | Yes'erday, I_e" ouf 1\\ ritten notice on meat dealers that funless bills covering deliveries of by EI’ Tor turkeys after December 22 are ad- justed to conform to ceilings set up WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. — Pre in the order given out on Decem- dent Roosevelt today repeated the!ber the dealers “must be ex- hope, which he said he intended pected to be treated violators to convey in his message to Con-|0f the regulation.” gress yesterday, of a United N Legal Opinion tions’ victory by 1944 | The Director, in the circular sent The President was asked whether to dealers terday, told them lin saying to the current Congress that even in cases where custo- that this body would probably have mers had ordered turkeys prior to a part in determining whether theil)ecember 22, the OPA’s Legal De- world would be freed from fear ' partment advises that the “sale in |if he meant to imply the war such cases did not take place on would be over by 1944. He said he the day the order was received” but could only express the hope that ' was “actually made on the date of this would be the case and couldn’t | delivery” to the customer, in most define the word. | cases not until December 24. The President also asked that| this be added to his message to|der she informed merchants of on Congress: | December 22 was published in the “In 1942 we built 8,090,000 tons!Federal Record of December 16, ct merchant ships. In this we ex-ibut “due to a misunderstanding ceeded the goal set.” lin the Territorial office it was not He told reporters he didn't want ‘Kpuhhclwd locally until December anyone in the shipyards or mari- |22, upon her return, and merchants time work to think therc had been | were erroncously advised they a deliberate omission of this state- jcould retain the prices charged at | ment or a failure to give them due | Thanksgiving.” | credit. X ! When informed of the new order The reason this statement wasnv't !on December 22, Juneau meat deal- included was due to a mistake injers said practically all turkeys for transcribing the ninth and ““M‘Christmas already had been or- draft of the speecl |dered and they would abide by the T TR | previous directive which told them | : ¥ o | December 16 they could retain 'I'y“'g Four.ln_Hand prices charged on Thanksgiving. ' Baffles Most Waacs | i DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.,, Jan. 8. | —Recruits, coming into the second Women's Army Auxiliary Corps training center here, master with comparative ease many of their tasks, but most of them come a cropper on a masculine item of at- tire. | “The hardest thing they have to |learn is to tie a four-in-hand ti |explained 1st Lieut. Charles L. Sims, in charge of the processing depart- ment where the girls are outfitted. A four-in-hand tie is a “must” on ia Waac uniform, Advises Legal Action Meanwhile, the OPA office is | advising all customers who have !lodged complaints with her office to refuse to pay the excess above ceilings established here Decem- | der 22, and also advises them they *'an sue for three times the al- leged overcharge or $50, plus at- torneys’ fees and court costs, whichever amount is the highest. Mrs. Hermann said dealers “will not be held responsible for viola- tions during the period from De- cember 16 to 22 . . . however there is no excuse for violations that date.” (Continued on Page Three) after { RED ARMY IS NAZI FORCES Smash Through Wall of| German Resistance | Across Lower Don | | MOSCOW, Jan. 8. — Smashing | through the wall of German r s the Lower Don, tank attac { planes of the Russians | are reported as driving further and | are now within 65 miles of Rostov, | whose fall will trap the Nazis in| the C: us | This represents a gain of ten wiles since the Red Army's van- guard reached Bolshaya Orlovka, ! on the Sal River last Wednesday. | German losses of men and ma- teriel continued to mount | German Reports 600 Lost A captured Nazi Regimental | Commander is quoted by the Red Star as saying his unit lost 600/ of its original 800 men, and that| all of its military had been mo- torized | Wi Battlerront dispatches declared | that the Germans are fighting des- | perately to keep open the corri-| dor of the Caucasus, but the Red| Army is battering away steadily| _ through the hastily massed tanks | i “Wild Man® with 76,000 pounds of bombs. aerial attack. All planes returned aged listed. try. Col ther Gen. Vatutin’s forces far-| north are supported in the Don offensive by cover of Lieut. | Gen. Rokossov right flank and occupying numerous towns between the Don railroad running west of | Stalingrad, PRESIDENT'S TALK BRINGS REACTIONS =¥ Nazis Call President’s Pro- duction Figures Fantastic NEW YORK, Jan. 8—The Ger-| mans’ first comment last night on! President Roosevelt’s address to| Congress, picked up here from al broadcast from Berlin, took the cus- tomary line of attacking the Presi- | dent. | The Germans singled out his fig- | jures on United States war produc- tion for particular comment, de- seribing them as fantastic. | BERLIN, Jan. 8. —A diplomatic | correspondent of the Germans'| Transocean News Agency declares that the war situation cannot be changed by the “announcement on plans and hopes for the future and Roosevelt's threats about attacks on Europe planned for this year, par- ticularly from the air.” He said this threat would be r | istered without alarm in Berlin| and that the German people knowi “Roosevelt’s bombers and soldiers | will get the surprise of their lives |if they attempt to carry out Roose- velt’s threats.” ‘ e (:ul'ure Claude R. Wickal time food administrator, it is British | coming increasingly apparent that u n | Mr. Wickard is czar in name onlys Here’s why: In order to be food B. T i . Big Trip 8. Meet another new U. “Mich By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.— With time to digest the effects of the appointment of Se | [ “cz Wickard has to settle, among | other things, the primary matbersJ :nl (1) Price ceilings; (2) Rationing |of foodstuffs; (3) Farm labor; (4) | portation of farm products. In the case of price ceilings, he’ is entirely dependent on the price| administrator and his overlord, E cnomic Stabilizer James F. Byrne emy ShipS Suflk here is also Congress. If Con should decide n January to legi farm prices or change the basis of LONDON, Jan. 8—British sub- (irm price controls (parity) then 'marine Thrasher is back in England | Mr. Wickard would be further bound again for the first time since 1941. The Thrasher comes back with a record of 16 enemy ships sunk on 13 different patrols covering at least 40,000 miles. - Arrives Back in England| with Record of 16 En- te that legislation As for rationing, here again rnes and the price administration !d the whip hand. In the field rationing, however, Mr. Wickard not likely to have a great deal British farmers have increased °° 'Youble, because shortages force their production of foodstuffs by '/° 16u€. No one is going to hold | more than 6,000,000 tons annually. CUl @gainst rationing when those hero fighting in the New Guinea area. He is Pfc. Orin Sutton of Charlevoix, Mich., who I 30 and 40 Japs in combat in the Buna-Gona area. igan Wild Man,” was hit by Jap machine gun slugs, but after getting then: removed, above, went back into action 24 hours later Wickard Is Food Czar In Name Only; Many h Obstacles fo Be Met NAVY REPORT They Plastered Japs on ngeflls_land In the biggest mass raid of the Pacific war, huge American bombers plastered the Japs on Wake Island Here the members of one of the bombers prepared to go aboard for the 0 Japs Too | (ONVOY GETS. B SAFELY INTO NORTHPORTS . GILLAM IS UNREPORTED TRIP NORTH Pilot Left Seatle Last Tues- day for Alaska-Was to Make Stops, However Harold Gillam, one of Alaska's vetegan air pilots, with five pas- sengers, is the object of a search across British Columbia’s coastal region after the Morrison-Knudsen | Company plane has been unreport- ed three days out of Seattle on a flight to Alaska. Gillam, flying the company's Electra transport plane, left Seattle last Tuesday afternoon. Up to late yesterday and early today no ra- dio reports from the plane had been received. Passengers on Plane Passengers aboard the transport plane are listed as follows: Robert Gebo, of Seattle, general superintendent of the Morrison- Knudsen Company in Alaska. Dewey Metzdorf, of Seattle, sup- erintendent of hotels and commis- saries for the Alaska Railroad, owner of the Anchorage Hotel and Anchorage civic leader. Joseph H. Tippits, Civil Aeronau- tics Authority, mechanical main- | tenance unit at Anchorage. . Susan Balkzer, CAA employee at Anchorage. Percy Cutting, Morrison - Knud- sen mechanic in Alaska, returning |from a holiday trip to his home in California. Stops Were To Be Made An Assoclated Press dispatch ‘“i the Empire from Seattle said the | Escorting Daoyers Suc- cessfully Fight Off Enemy Force LONDON, Jan. 8-—The British Admiralty announces that an Al- | lied convoy has reached north Rus- |slan ports without loss or damage | after a hot naval action. It was previously reported on | December 31 that one convoy had | been attacked. The convoy that has reached incrth Russian ports was attacked lnv a “greatly superior enemy force, | thought to consist of one pocket | battleship, one cruiser and a num- | ber of destroyer | The attack was made off North Cape at extreme north Norway. The Admiralty said a small force of escorting destroyers drove off the enemy’s strong forces after a two hour fight. There were some cas- ualties aboard the destroyers Achates and Onslow, the Admiral- ty says, but none of the escorting (1. 1. N. Phonephoto) ships were lost. KISKA AGAIN illed between utton, called the shortages become self-evident On farm labor, Mr. Wickard is entirely dependent upon orders and decisions of Manpower Commission- er Paul V. McNutt. It is estimated that it will take 12000000 farm workers to grow and harvest next ye agricultural products supply will probably not be OVEr again hombed the Jap bases 8,000,000—and many of these or uny| Kiska, in the Aleutians, and Mun- additional that can be found will| 4a in the Solomons. be inexperienced Wednesday Have Not Been Received WASHINGTON, Jan BOMBED, SAYS Results of Attack of Lasil office manager there for the Mor- frlson-Knudsen Company declared | that Gillam is not missing as_far |as the company knows and “fur- Ither stated that he could not be lover due at Anchorage, as a dis- | patch from there stated, as stops 'were to be made enroute from Se- !ntth to the Westward for inspec- :uon of work. | In Juneau, the office manager | here stated he had no informa- {tion whatsoeved but believed stops |were to be made northbound’ to :Juneau, possibly at a project near | Annette and maybe at Petersburg. | Gillam's Flying Record | Gillam has been flying for the | Morrison-Knudsen Company for inearly two years and has been a monthly visitor with his plane in Juneau |" Friends of the flyer here pin |hope that he is safe because of his | flying skill under difficult condi- | tions in the north. Gillam has fig- fured in many spectacular air ex- {ploits in the northland but has |always found his way out. | is known that the party |aboard Gillam’s plane is equipped |with camping equipment and also {emergency rations. AMERICANS, "FRENCH IN - NEW ACTION ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 8.—Attack- ing against heavy odds, the French pes 8 — The| jid American Camel Corps have '® Navy reports that Army Air Forces|captured Tanout Maller, 14 miles al from Tiaret in the seuthern Tuni- sian desert near the Tripolotanian border and only 200 miles south- $The Navy says no reports as t0 yeq of Tripoli, a French mili- For farm machinery, Mr. Wickard | the damage done on the bembing tary spokesman declared today. | cent | Farm machinery; and (5) Truns~;wm have to look to the War Pro-|of the Kiska shore installations This* is -the nearest the Allies duction Board and its priorities di- last Wednesday have been received have penetrated so far to Tripoli vision. WPB limits the m: turer of farm machinery to 20 per of the 1940-41 production With Wickard demanding stagger- ing production of necessary crops from the nation’s farmers, he has to tell them that they will have to get the job done with 80 per cent less farm machinery than they were buving in pre-war days. As for farm transportation, that’s up to Defense Transportation Co- ordinator, Joseph B. Eastman, Administrator William Jeffer and to some extent Ofl Coordinator Harold L. Ickes. ber (Continued on Page Three) ifac- | as clouds prevented of the results A Naval to have no other information about operations other than given out in the communique -o CARTE BLANCHE FORT BLISS, Texas, Sept. 29.— Rub- A cavalryman proudly showed his buddies the pass given him by his company commander. Minus the usual time limitation, it read, “permission to visit El Paso and get married.” observation spokesman professed” in the sweep south to the main Axis defense line. Many Italians are reported to have been killed in this action which is the only ground move- ment reported on the operating front as bad weather has again closed down on the northern sec- tor. U. 8. Air Forces attacked the Germans at Kairouan, 35 miles southwest of Sousse and RAF Bix- leys started two large fires in a new attack on the docks at Tunis. Anti-aircraft defenses were put out of action as were four German planes that came up to the attack.