The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 7 § JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY e VOL. LX., NO. 9236. o ALLIED AERIAL BLITZ SMASHES CONVOY NO TRACE OF BITERTEIS | TWELVE"MAYBES” FORTHIS YEAR GILLAM NOR = HIT IN HUGE HIS ELECTRA US. ATTACK {mros SENT DOWN Wide Selarch—Being Made i R 1 or France Heaviest Air Raid of War: o , ‘Scores of Zero Planes Shot for Missing Plane from g 7 | Down from Air-Enemy Seattle, Northbound 3 NIPPON TRANSPORTS: Eight Dollar Killer OPENINé of Mediter- ranean by Axis de- feat in Africa E | | ? Ou' There land attack | in AMfrica Carried | ifaly by air, - | Army Wiped Out | 3 Up to early this afternoon no ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN R%‘;T;:i :‘;’ ::':"s | ALLIED HRADQUARTERS IN word concerning the missing Har- ! NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 9 The | dri | AUSTRALIA, Jan. 9 — The third old Gillam plane with five passeng- United States Air Force has struck rives | Japanese transport out of a total ers aboard has been received in one of the heaviest blows of the) |of four n the New Guinea bound Juneau. | war at Bizerte, vital Axis supply SQUEEZE on Spain & | convoy has been sent to the bot- A radiogram to the Empire from | port, it was r ed today ) by Hitler or > ‘mm and 72 zero planes have been the Ketchikan Chronicle said a| Flying Fortr s bombead l’w city Allies N | shot down 1_n an arial Allied blitz daylong search was made yesterday | in three separate raids with details {in which virtually every type of of the southeast Alaska mainland | of the results not given. | | plane was brought into play by the coast and islands but this failed| The attacks coincided with news | ATTACK on Turkey, Southwest Pacific Air Force. 3 | 3 to reveal a trace of the plane from Lieut. Gen. Eisenhower that | key to Mid East ) Whilo: SR8 (W% S| e Today the search is now turned U. S. Maj. Gen. Carl $patz has by Axis. 3'2‘:“3“' G(;"‘ DG ISR to the British Columbia coastal area been made Commander of the new e ‘;r‘ned Lhromu:nsuan g and surface vessels and planes of Allied air force on that front and . - "L’::l;“:!‘ ofl‘leer endun ""dtflt“5~ the Coast Guard will comb every T R T PACIFIC THEATRE! FLAREUP in Siberia i and chhsns:lt re?:i:"l ¢ com bay and inlet in cooperation with Air Force under Maj. Gen. James as Russia, Japan eratilations ok iy mwflonuz cmn' Canadian planen( and su}:iace craft Doolittle, but also Royal Air Force | end truce paign which destroyed the Ja “ fl“(‘n;kag out” : units and such French units as| U.S.S.R. l‘Army once estimated to have top me official report received in may serve there. | i g on 9 ¥ g e / \ e talled 15,000 battling in the aj - Ketchikan was l)?at Gillam report- Five American fighting |1L||\(':‘1 ACJK,"‘ tn ::‘.u'u"“' v’kate. ? 5 :‘: T\l]m:d}; k;lnleil::on“zljfll(‘f:’f:l‘dm were lost in the Bizerte raids and ot Bl i i One Zero and two Jap fighter e lane's 'S vas *“ ng N \ Ane: eT s 1 s gieioe, sagh. | 8 ook x;m encmy planes were shot | e ‘al‘snes were attempting to screen ut f down | the landing effort of the 10 shi sition. | i . S Ja, - i REC?PTURE o‘f(lurmu, | convoy, consisting of four trans- : ) » & . | jap attack on | ports, one cruise - Tueedsy _afternoon emroute 0| gy as a plece of drain-pipe"—that's the way British ordnance R ID K ) e Richs uiser and other war: e e o pmjngf experts fondly describe the Sten gun, simple but lethal little sul;; ? | Allied fighter bombers knocked including Annette Island and Pe- tersburg and then Juneau before proceeding westward Pilot Gillam is flying a Lockheed Electra transport wheel plane for the Morrison-Knudsen Company and has been with the company for nearly two years. Five Passengers Gillam left Seattle Pilot last (Continued on Page Three) The Washin.gtun Merry - Go-Round machine gun they are turning out by the thousands per week. costs but a little over $8, cantai ns only 59 parts, weighs only 6': pounds and fires at the rate of 500 rounds a minute. It's a favorite with paritroopers, one of whom is shown above, firing from a clip of 32 9-millimeter, round-nosed cartr Meat Dealers ( - OPA Stand laim on Turkey Prices Here Unfair SOLOMON JAP BASES JAN.7 | Results of Atfack on Enemy | Aleutian Outpost Not Seen .’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Ameri-| can bombers have raided the Jap | | down 20 Zeros for certain and pro- | bably destroyed seven and dam- |aged 15 others concentrated in the | early part of the 24 hour blitz end- BLOW at Truk to cripple Jap naval power "mg Friday afternoon. PUSH north to The convoy may have landed ome Jap troops on Lae but those retrieve Indies, | ot | who might have reached the shore Philippines were subjected to the. full fury of ry Experts Are the Aillied blasting. Gen. MacArthur highly praised the work of the American and Aus- DRIVE on Australian | | | | tralian Alr forces and conferred the | i mainland by Japanese distinguished service cross on sev- jeral American and Australian offi- Eichelberger. SENATE IS By DREW PEARSON 3 | ST base at Rekata Bay in the Solo- | { (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Juneau meat Gealers today is- Mmons again, starting fires on| . ELECTRICAL vt & ane i Now MostCautiouson ~ GERMANSTO | (The Brass g—plastic for | OPA’s fairness in attempting to ported today in a communique i the duration—and a free ride | impose a last-minute change in the | which also told of new air at- BAlKl"G o" on the Washington Merry-Go- | prices for Christmas turkeys on Y.a('ks on the enemy bases at Kiska . " ] L] | Round is awarded to Leon Hen- | December 22, and advising custo- in the Aleutians, and Bougainville | a lng ny re I( Ions derson, the best public servant | mers not to .pay the “excess | Island Washington has seen in a long | A spokesman appointed by the| The rtsulés' of dthchxxska attack " | ! time, but who never learned dealers, a local meat dealer, said Were not observed, the Navy said.; . JACK STINNETT | . . ' that the American public hates PASSED AWAY that all turkeys for both Thanks- 'R”‘ r;ifh‘ took place January T,| 16 000 (0Al \vxs‘:ul.:\;:\ :NN:,“U i ,‘Clalm NaZIS Aren’t IOld Of be scolded. giving and Christmas were bought | Thursday. ! 3TON, Jan. 9— United | 7 A hogs . 20 ; bl g | from wholesalers in the States| Flying Fortresses bombed enemy | [l | States military experts, both official, | Retreat of Hitler's Prefer fo wa" fO[ Readlon WASHINGTON.—About 25 years Nikola TesI;Who Played (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Three) prior to November 1. Juneau deal- | ers were charged 55 cents a pound l (Continued on Pugé Three) areas on Bougainville Island on the same day and two of 12 at- ing the warmer Easter period when schools will remain open. i MINERS OUT BUY DEFENSE BONDS and unofficial, have learned to walk cautiously in their predictions of (Continued Dl; "PaéérTwo) j | Troo_ps from American upe *he writer of this column was | tacki things to come i i i s ’ |for the birds and the spokesman|tacking Zero planes were shot iy / ! . ffi:fufifig :ilmr:fd 1@3?’:5&“?%2 with Thor's Thunder- |« that the opa had then told|down. | Jiito. bottey example 40} Higiemn. b (By. Associated Press) Public escape below. To get out of the| g |them the wholesalers could have| A force of Marauder medium | [*O“"dd than ".‘]”';' b “"‘:I 0”13‘»’:“ Russia today officially challenged line of fire, he crawled through | bO"S, D|ed n N: Y. charged up to 57'% cents a pound.|bombers with an Aircobra escort | ::;"'hv‘h‘:‘]‘:"xl‘:“ "4‘1.‘»1((-::. n;"‘m;n:x: Germeny to tell the (ruth about| WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—A ten- a window and into a room where | o At that time, he said, Juneau |of rghlzers raided Ehv enemy camp r‘m’l\“:‘”m_d AfHika. Covos, Bilitent- the disaster which 1s rapidly en-dency to avoid blueprint formulas a scrawny, anemic youth wasseat-| NEW YORK, Jan, 9. — Nikola dealers checked with local OPArlmd ekata Bay, a:mm Isifl:.)(fllfllh- e theie srrors in thiWRr in- ",“k’vm"‘"' Hitler's invasion arn.fles as | for the y_:oscwar structure of the ed at a desk trying to study. | Tesla, 86, electrical wizard, noted for #ccountants and the OPA agreed | land, 135 m‘nm northwest of mm-} PTHENS, b olihing the fall of Prance, the de- Soviet troops recaptured more than | world until the war is won, is indi- No one by the greatest stretch of | development of systems of alternat- |that a minimum of 62 cenis a daleanal. Fires were started. Two ME!'I Asked fo Rem”. fo fense of Russia, the seizure of Crete, 20 additional towns in their tri-|cated among the United States Sen- the imagination at that time ever ing current power, trans jon, dis- pound, and a maximum of 80 enemy float-type planes were dam- 1 the inability of the British to hold UnPhant sweep along the lower | ators, who were told by Roosevelt would have foreseen his emergence | tribution of electric energy, is dead. cents would be accepuable. This |aged and the Japs shot down two WOI'k as ShOflage HaS {out in Hong Kong und Singapore, DoR River Valley and the Cau- ;ht:ltdllhe{ might have a hand in a5 the bulging, bellicose, cigar- | He died in his room in a hotel. He'gave the dealers a profit of 23%(U. S. planes with anti-aircraft fire.| land espocially the 1 of Mar- CA5Us. “SO ng 8 chewing gentleman who was to fix |had been in failing health for the percent, the spokesman said, and S e e Be(ome A(u'e A1 FeGin Ramnis offen- _Despite the Soviet jibe, Hitler’s| S me who spoke for the record more prices, ratiori more essen- | Past two years. the OPA told them, he said, that| 3 cive, the experts have been almost fleld headquarters still resorted to|8nd some sbeaking privately, told tials, and get cussed out more gen- | Nikola Tesla played with Thor's jt had no objection to a 25 percent | 3 TR 5 behind Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont- generalities which pictured the biig ‘n;wer Bhem:y preferred erally than any man in America, T thunderbolts and, reclining on Nis profit in dollars and cents mark-| WILKESBARRE, Pa, Jan. 9= yomepy ever since he left El Ala- Germans repulsing Soviet attacks| . vy foe % r the Am- In fact, Leon Henderson, in those | Pack, without note pad or tools, yp, i rhe War Department today sum- in 108 'mator sectors. e;manslc emse:‘vea ;’mm Nation- dear, dead, pre-world war I daysf‘""“‘ed at problems whose solution| ‘mpe turkeys were sold for |moned striking anthracite workers .y wers sure, even after the, Soviet dispatches said three ma- ?nmtgl‘e JSL%"LZ&?' e . at Swarthmore College, was any- |Would change the degree of man's mpanksgiving on the price agreed io a mass meeting and urged theil' gigpin Army's great break-through jor armies now are closing In| "y b0 giaentis statements to Cos thing but, bellicose, He was so timid | °00¢rol over the elements. on. immediate return to work as one ik Alamein and the capture around the great German base abf,cocSpwcqn S oon SERETE i 8 3 f | Photographs have shown him sit- : section of the oil-rationed East, there i s Ttali : o) 1) g ¥ within the that, though he was a sophomore, grap! New Regulation i there of most of Rommel’s Italian Rostov. The nearest is reported | ..im of possibility that that 1 ug! . | ting calmly in a laboratory while el- 5 T Philadelphia, reported the threal ypits, that he would make a stand less than 65 miles away. o 2 Body: he let this freshman find haven| .. ip-zagoed ~On December 16, the same date « * . . y o i Wi may help greatly to save the world in hi pectrioBpRi 31 thol lonig si-2angen || =, butkey raUAR s iadu) that “the hard coal shortage is at Matruh. Then, the big battles' A Russ communique, aimed at|from future fear in_ his room. about the room. that'a new turkey JUEs macy.s [ more critical than during the last were “just ahead” at Bardia, To- German propaganda mouthpieces, o Leon at that time was the green- | {mlimi ind was appeared in print in the Federal % i bl P PR propagi pleces, | Ampifying at a press conference % | Unlimited power for mankind was 5 3 3 | wa: bruk, Bengasi. The “desert fox” said German leaders conceal the|held yesterdas h ressed est thing on' the campys. | his aim—power that could be tapped Record in Washington, the local (By Associated Press) TThe {ITedagiold wildcat (walliont' was gofb 't mikke ‘a whale of & trilh ot the elieat tram th el | Hane trat Kt R ET he Taking his first college year some | or unlocked from the earth by any- OPA office again issued a circular| New York City public schools have| g reqd to a new area, closing the stand at El Agheila, then Misurata, people it i mpf b e W mighp che ) place in South Jersey, he had ar-| one who had the key. While work- to Juncau dealers, telling them | been ordered closed for a week be- ' il "o " yosioion This is the then Tripoll ; a5 g rived at a relatively sophisticated |ing on that, he brought out inven- they would be able to sell at the ) ginning February 1 to replace Easter | .., colliery affected, bringing to 4 2 | T S"‘T;"Mly Admiral Stark Com- college with about ten dollars in | tion after invention, from high fre- same price for Christmas, a fair|vacation, and in Rhode Island, a | “on' thian ";000 '_h‘; number of There is g Ev ‘ lr:‘mn. erl of the Ameyrican Naval his pocket, determined to get an quency generators to steam turbines'and just conclusion since the deal- |five-day week for non-war business v B R i 5 good e son for thi cau- | orces in Euljomnnx Waters, told re- education. And he did. In his room | of radical design. lers had paid the same price f.—,riosmb]ishments appeared probable “'“'z"”s’-ll','.;.-:: “" P :)’*“mm e !";:"‘ .'”, the “;'l $hie. - Ainod e :’:‘:“; he still ';;ld the opinion he kept a stock of crackers which Father Was Clergyman the Christmas turkeys to whole- | public officials and citizens put their| "™ A e Hiellgsgn 1S pinglyan American g he war would be tough, but he sold to ‘the hungry and . the okt n of & Greek clergyman salers | heads together to figure out way: |increase and reduced union dues. fighting men got a real close-up| 1ext year we can afford to smash i : | 80! jodpice oy PRARSS: 2 The Retail Coal Merchants As- of the Nazi fighting machine. These | in anywhere.” less impecunious at prices slightly |and a Serbian mother who was the | But at the same time, a new '© ';":)1 “;: I'“?l’“_"“::‘ E-‘“L""l “’.K‘“],::m:‘u;arl]Ph;l),‘:dl.l“;"fl'I"'r okl WAt inan m:(,' “"”"'1‘;:;::,’\, (‘A o | [ i “ VA | b a8 | rapr : : b sen | available fuel oil in the East. Socle 998 prosi ?xigher than “ceiling’ ‘pncescharged daughter of an m\_cntgol:‘,_l'_l'(;.?l: \:’/";f regulation was in effect, even Indications were that a great|mated that 50 percent of the city’s Lodge, Jr. who saw Rommel start h u oy the fonnsole WRHBE (L alle, pom B "857'3‘ 1 e (i rew though S Jouead SRty bed o many motorists were observing the |coal yards are out of nut coal; his last great push | Gfl r Yo do i O i ' a, an ar ving is. g 4 - - e L @ ¢4 7 *: did any other chores he could find |lage Aof ‘Ausmanv 14(’; ia ity way of ku«mm;, this. gnnmqueml,\ ban on pleasure driving along the |that supplies of stove coal are Writing in The Cavalry Journal B " . P | around the campus and eventually | up with ideas bu/,m‘\b "‘0. 15; n': ]» they sold most of their Chr)smmsvmmmic seaboard. Sixty-four op/\{.wuly gone; and that pea coal Major Lodge said “A man e ef l“ '] was graduated. He got his schooling at the Poly= i, keys pefore December 22, when : 4 e : e w Would hg # ! : ok g . fficials aces . R S ¥ - a fe lave to be blind not to see ’ It was a fight all the way ! technic Institute in Gratz and at yne Director of the OPA, return- 1'Df‘:£: Z:“’;"‘;‘:::“d‘]’l““:&‘h“zfl::_‘ ,“’,":“H i al i bl ¢ - - ey What's Happefle‘! through. {the Unlversity of Prague. In after ;. rom" washington, decided to o W0 1 ; Seia b perbly equipped for the rigours 0 4L 4 2 s such institutions as Yale, Co- » paign opened and found only a few - -ro—m uippe r the rigours of SAL e sen LeClerc’ It was such a fight that it mono- | years such institutions as #% put the latter regulation into ef-' ...c Ta’ streets o Coloiiag lesert, ighting, German civilians| . CAIRO, Jan. 9 — Cen erc’s TOKYO, Jan, 9. — With a lized all of Leon's energy and |!umbia and Vienna Polytechnicload- ro.i i yupean cars on the streets and in parking Hite b . Fighting French have stormed and < s pol E BY ed him ‘with honorary degrees J areas adjacent to amusement [ 1ad to content themselvies G Axis oulias great flare of trumpeting and he had none left for the belliger-| ¢ WM ¥k} MO PATER o1 The spokesman for the dealers | places, | |with ersatz makeshifts, but not CAPUUred the Axis Outpost OF B passaning, the Tokye radie ency for which he has become cur- | s practical cavect bkl 000 aigl that if turkeys which had been | The streets of large cities were | v fighting men.” Gatrun, southwest of Murzuch i1 oy 4, " exclaimed this -morning 1ently famous. at Budapest, where he bought O rchased before November 1 in|nearly deserted. Defense Transpor- | o ' Major Joe Ahee, who was witn [ southern Libyan Desers Bl that the puppet gow nt of o g Datar:” e :;(:,\ ].,,"x'wh,.” he the south were sold here at the, tation Director Eastman called on| High Rdo-4:08 a.mm.; 108 “‘": the Senator, said German thor ""L.;.“” a5 about 500 miles SOUN| ¢yyny has declared war he LEON THE BELLICOSE Do yomns ol me miferated to the latest price set by the OPA, not|taxi operators and the public to halt Low Blo<l0:a7 st 1:,? ’I"" cugbness a~d preparation was such *' POl United States and Great Pri- Later, after graduation, Leon|ynied States and became an Am- COUNtng transportation charges,|the use of all cabs for pleasure | ”“p tide—4 4:" -0k ; ? l“_L hat they brought with them spare . tain and will throw itself Aight went to teach at the University|eyican citizen dealers here would realize a profit| driving. | Low @de—11:12 pm., =10 feet. |parts for Al and British 1%8a¢ Niemi 'was admitted to 8t.| peping Japan in or of Pennsylvania. For a brief in- Praised Edison {of less than 21'c percent, which! It is estimated that the New York | e Ay g they expeeted to capture. Ann’s Hospital yesterday for medi-| pieporiune. terval, I taught there, too. That| For a time he worked at Orange, |1 less than oper ting cost with closure order of schools will save | ux.-f: &g&: ;‘ 1.; | m., 1;.‘ x::v e ,».u,.. pr.uls'rmu of maintaining “l"m"A Lgn AL L AR was where Leon first climbed toN. J, with the late Thomas A. B |relation o overhead and igh 200000 galons of fuel oil “;"d”““\ o e S 15 Teeh | canition (UM EEN | 1 e e was an 1. Products of the milkweed are Xt S e . A . shortage may not be so acul ur- fig - m., 15. et. | conditiol s another example of 5 . S o the role of economist, and where |son, specifically in designing motors | wages. B i P! coming medical patient at St. Ann's being used in the manufacture of Hospital yesterday. paper, rayon and nitro-cellulose.