The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9237. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, _IANUARYTI, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS - —_— | RECORD BUDGET ASKED Allied Air Forces Pounding Fleeing Jap Western Oregon Floed (lai HITS ARE SCORED ON MORE SHIPS Airdromes on New Guinea' Also Bombed - Many | Planes Shot from Air | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN E AUSTRALIA, Jan. 11 Allied | planes, pounding the fleeing Jap- | anese convoy off Lae, New Guinea, | scored hits on two more ships, the official Monday communique states. | The aerial assault on the enemy | has already resulted in sinking three Japanese troopships loaded with soldiers. The Allied fliers also bombed the airdromes at Mawak and Finchhaf- en, New Guinea, and the occupied area at Madand. All the raiding planes returned safely. B MIGHTY AERIAL VICTORY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 11.—The official communique issued Sunday said a Orchestra Leader Mary Marshall, chain theater owner, for $25,000 TcT:EmEa ;7;17715571;;,7 firee) FORMER SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA NOMINATED: CAB §mall Business WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Josl Lee, former Senator from OKla- homa, was today nominated by President Roosevelt to a member- ship on the Civil Aeronautics Board. turned by a jury in a Chicago c around Miss Marshall, The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Mme. Chiang in U.S. » - Awarded Damages i she said, when the automobile in which she was riding crashed into a lamp post as Solomon took both hands from the wheel trying to embprace her, was awarded $2,500 damages in a sealed verdict re- suffered injuries which cost her $500 doctors’ fees and $2,000 worth of orchestra work. The theater owner denied he ever put his arms , who is shown above. Hearing; Program Will [}e Drafted fo Give Aid n Suit SEARCHING FOR GILLAM, NEW REGION Coast Guard, Canadian Air Force Hunt for Missing Flier, Northbound TLE, Jan. 11.—Because of | | conditions it was impos- | sible last week for a detailed search | |for the missing Lockheed Electra, |land sport plane of Morrison- in\H(iu with Harcld Gillam as Ipilot and five passengers aboard, IHal Frederick, Regional CAA Air- |way Traffic Control Chief, said| here Sunday ! Frederick said U. S. Coast Guard and the Royal Air Force, from Pa- | tricia Bay and Annette Island bases, covered the route over which Gil- |lam was scheduled for his flight, but much of the territory, particu- larly inland from the route, has not been thoroughly checked. The Gillam party left Seattle at 1:27 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon | and expected to be in Ketchikan within four and one-half hours. The plane, said Prederick, was seen and identified at 2:08 o'clock by Canadian Aircraft watchers, and again at 2:24 o'clock at Qualicum Jeach, flying in a northwesterly direction. The plane was last heard from at 6:30.-o'clock Tues- day evening, slightly more than alf an hour after the craft should have landed on Annette Island or the Ketchikan airport. Frederick added that the general opinion seemed to be the plane is| down in the area south of Annette, | where the main search is con- centrated. 26, suing Leo Solomon, an elderly personal injury damages suffered, ourt. Miss Marshall claimed she to Get > ——— ESSEN AREA By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—In mid- | January, the Senate's Small Busi- ness Cemmittee is going to hold here BY PRESIDENT b & e Sl s e it Western Oregon’s rivers, swollen far beyond flood stages, had claimed —and rescue workers in the Willamette Valley were fearful there woul scene near Eugene, Ore. Group of Navy Airmen, Defenders of Aleutians, Awarded Dec_o:raiions} NOMINATED WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — The ! Navy Department announces that President Roosevelt has awarded decorations to 25 officers of Patrol Wing 4, group of Navy airmen who defended the Aleutians in the early anese ADDITIONAL TAXES MUST B COME FORTH ‘ Roosevelt Requests Sum ' of One Hundred Billion | Dollars for War LIMIT INCOME IS PROPOSED BY FDR Says Vidory_fan Be Won Only by Soldiers” Blood, Sweat of Men, Women WASHINGTON, Jan 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today laid before Congress a One Hundred Billion | Dollar war budget to speed the day to victory. To help raise the record sum, the President asked for Sixteen Billion Dollars in additional taxes or com- pulsory savings. Altogether, the President esti- mated the Government's spending | for the fiscal year beginning July 1 |2t One Hundred and Nine Billion | Dollars. ) ‘ In his message to the lawmakers, President Roosevelt said: ! “This budget represents the maxi- | mum program for waging war.” * . Tax Program The new tax program suggested includes a $25,000 as limit income or anyone after payment of taxes, epardless of source of the income. The budget not only dwarfs any- thing in history books and repre- sents more than the annual money v expenditures of all other bel- rents on. hoth sides of the war put together but is nearly three times what Germany is spending; ur times what England is spend- ing 14 times what Japan is pending in the current fiscal year, American War Cost I'ne American war cost is esti- matsd at about Seventy-Seven Bil- Dollars and add to that an- ms. Lives | | ] ‘ EEseREEy ¥ at least three lives—probably four 1d be more fatalities. This was the FLYNN 10 BE AMBASSADOR 5. W.PACIFIC Democratic;NaIionaI Com. Chairman Is Also fo Represent FDR WASHINGTON. — At a recent cabinet meeting, Secretary of War Stimson was explaining the Army’s a big powwow with 50 representa- tives of more than 300,000 small and medium business all over the land “to formulate a program.” g&chool to train military governors at Charlottesville, Va. He told how the Army wanted to have men skilled in government ready to rule the occupied areas after they were taken by our troops. President Roosevelt interrupted with the suggestion that civilian government might be best for the occupied areas. He indicated that he was not too enthusiastic about the principle of military fule. Whereupon Secretary of the In- terior Ickes, who has charge of the islands and territories of the Unit- ed States, acidly remarked: “And what about one spot of completely American territory—Ha- If anything has been more talked about and less attended to since the United States went into high war- time production ‘gear, it has been the plight of small busine: Some legislation has been enacted and some pressure brought, but it is infinitesimal compared to the dam- age that has been and is being done | in a great many areas. As one observer put it, “Every- one seems ready to die for little | business but very few are willing to sit down and work out constructive proposals that are in line with reality.” | | ‘The Senate committee’s invitation | indicates that this group, headed by | AIRRAIDED, | NIGHT TIME One Huntfid and Fifiyj British Bombers Leave | Krupp Works Blazing | LONDON, Jan. 11.—E: n, the site of the sprawling Krupp Works, Europe’s largest arsenal, was raid- ed last Saturday night by 150 big British bombers, of which seven were lost. | Returning pilots reported thc;.f left fires raging all over the! TO HIGHEST stages of the Japanese attack in June. “From the mom when word was fl WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— Presi- |dent Roosevelt today sent to the of last June 3, g0 040 the nomination of Edward shed that Japan- | ; “pyony - Ghatrman of the Demo- lion Lier Nineteen Bilion Dollars spent wiween the Pearl Harbor blasting d the beginning of the current waii? Let's begin by establishing Senator Murray (D.-Mont.), has a |great industrial area, some of the| |Mme, Chiarlg Kai-shek, American- ‘ed‘;“l:gd wife of the Generalissimo | and the leader of Chinese women in WALL STREET RULERS | the war effort, has arrived in the On one other oceasion, Presldent‘,u, S. for medical careand after Roosevelt, criticizing the School for | completing the treatment will be the Military Government at Charlottes- !guest of the President and Mrs, Viile, remarked that it was stocked | Roosevelt at the White House- up with young men from Wall| Street, and wondered whether the| Army planned to send young wall‘(A RR I E R OF Streeters out to rule those portions| of the world set free by the Am-; erican Army. {Thrilling Exploit of Spanish American War Re- called by Death Actually, the school is run by| one of the most liberal men in the | SAN FRANCISCO, Calim., Jan. 11.—Major Andrew Rowan, noted Army, Maj. Gen. Allen Gullion,| the Provost Marshal, an old Wood- | icarrier of the “Message to Gar- jcia” during the Spanish-American row Wilson rooter. Also it has as) one of its executives Col. Jesse| Miller, former secretary of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board,—no reactionary. But the personnel of the school, War, died yesterday at the Letter- man Hospital. He had been in ill While some people inside the Ad-|health for about two years. ministration think that a school| As a young army officer, Rowan for military covernment may be | fired the imagination of the Amer- OK, they wonder how long mili- ican people at the outbreak of the if turned loose to run the USA. ! (Continued on Page Four) civil government at home.” - would begin by repealing the se-; curities and Exchange Act, then| cut down many another civil safe- guard in the country. To temper this array of reaction, Gen. Gullion offered a job on the school faculty to defeated Democratic Congress- man Tom Eliot of Massachusetts, but he declined. (Confiu;d ;n Page Three) worthy ambition. At one point, the |fires visible for a distance of 100 invitation says: ‘“Today, an ill- miles. | planned war program is not only | The raiding British planes were | cutting off the fat, but is also in |subjected to intense anti-aircraft| sgme sectors, cutting into the very fire and were iorced to fight their | bone of our civilian economy. {way through swarms of German | Some economists here think “the i,oht fighters. | as the sinew of our middle classes) | is small business and that unless ‘ something is done to save it from |Gov GRUENING IS going down in the deluge of prior- | g - ‘ ventory controls and manpower | BA(K FROM IRIP ‘ shortages, our entire economic and | | even social system will undergo a | Io WASHINGTO change from which it will never | ‘ Let is be said now that some | Byaes 2 | economists, big business men and i reat Cruening “'m”"fdl |labor leaders think this would be |0 Juneau yesterday after a trip | a good thing. That and the inertia :or about six weeks to Washing-| | (with, perhaps, little business’ lack ©n the return yesterday. | | of organization) is what has brought | The trip was made mainly in its present plight—a plight serious |connection with the recent investi- enough to force a Senate committee gation of censorship by the Senate | what can be done about it, ;‘Congress. after which, a bill which | would have legalized censorship of Recently, T talked to A newsman /mail between Alaska and the States who had just returned from the|was recalled after passing both he | “Piguratively,” he said, *I 5”" This morning he presided over a hundreds of closed doors of smau‘mm,ung of r.h: Alas‘l’n War b;uu— ‘busmesses which had signs hung on‘,_,“ which was recessed from Fri | them, ‘Gone to War,' or 5 | A o % Sahe Gone\day. Howard Thompson of the | ever happened like this in the coun- try since the post-Civil War de- |8 the Deparvm_cm of Commerce s B i A on the Council, s the only mem- 1 (Continued on Page Three) ber absent. bone of civilian economy” (as well | | ities, price controls, rationing, in-f recover. i of the protectors of little business'o" D. C. and to San Francisco| to call a three-day session to see|Judiciary Committee of the last southwest and middle west. ouses, with the War... TLUst Siing hasl.U‘ S. Wedther Bureau, represent- U.S. COURT Wiley Ruiledgé Is Named Successor of Former As- sociate Justice Byrnes WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — Presi- dent Roosevell today sent to the Senate the nomination of Wiley B. Rutledge, 48, associate Justice of the United States Court of Ap- peals of the District of Columbia, to be Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States. He ‘will take the place vacated on the bench of the highest tribunal of the United States by Associate Justice James F. Byrnes who has been appointed Economic Stabili- zation Director, Rutledge is a former dean of the law school of the University of Oklahoma. | ese aircraft carriers were only 400 miles off Kiska, until June 15, pilots | and crews of the craft of Patrol| Wing 4 faced, but surmounted, al-| most an incredible succession of obstacles to hold the enemy at ba; Capt. Leslie Gehres, of Coronado, | Calif., Commander of the Unit, said. | Faced Death; No Wavering ) “On every flight the men of the | crews were told they might not re- | turn to a man, and every man knew | this, yet none wavered,” said Gehres. The men were flying Catalina | patrol boats, designed for long range scouting, rather than fighting, but a “total of approximately 65,000 tons of enemy warships and transports suffered under the Patwing 4 on- slawght, In addition, Jap aircraft were destroyed, a radio station was | demolished and enemy supply dumpsi were bombed.” American losses are not stated in the announcement. Those Rewarded The Navy Cross was awarded to Lieut. Lucius Campbell of Seattle. “o_(k fil})‘TATIBHS %Eomm who received the Dis- nguished Flying Cross included ieut. J. G Carl Bergner of Seattle, NEW YORK, Jan. 11 Closlngfl‘ie“l‘ Frank Caughey of Spokans quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Lieut. Claude Gaskell of Opportun- stock today is 3%, American Can |tV Wash,, Lieut. Elmer Anderson 73%, Anaconda 5%, Bethlehem | Of Ellensburg, Ensign Melverne Steel 57, Commonwealth and South- | Johnson, Ensign Thomas Sullivan, ern 13/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, In- | Ensign Leo Nuss and Ensign Donald ternational Harvester 57'%, Kenne- Anderson, all of Seattle, and Ensign cott 20%, New York Central 10%, Marvin Hart of Sumner, Washing- Northern' Pacific 7%, United States | ©n- ; f‘alic Nn.tmm\l Committee, to be "y 40 goan war bill is One nited States Minister 0 AUS- yyngre and Ninety-Six Billion tralia, succeeding Nelson JONNSON, pojarg just short of One Billion wh retiring from the diplo- pojars all the Treasury spent atic service {irom the day George Washington 4 Flynu in addition to scrving 8% was fnaugurated until a year ago. linister~to Australia, will be the| The President did not translate ersonal representative of Presi-| (e estimates into planes or tanks cnt Roosevelt with the rank of and said to do so would merely help Ambassador to the Southwest Pa-|the enemy. ific area. l Emphasizing the figures of the Flynn has called a meeting of | estimate meant weapons, not coins, e Democratic National Commit-|the President said the Axis could act on his resignation as|not be swamped by money. and to choose a suc-; The President cautioned that | “victory cannot be brought with any Frank C. @mount of money, however large, and vietory will' only be achieved ee to Chairman cessor. Postmaster General Walker, previously National Chair- man, is expected by some persons, by bleod of soldiers, the sweat of {men and women and sacrifice by all of the people.” BROWNIS U.5.BOMBER OPA CHIEF IS MISSING, Former Senafor from Mich-,RABUAI. R A'D igan Is Successor fo Leon Henderson o get the job. .- Brig. Gen. Walker Fails to Return with His Crew- WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 Pr PSRRI 13 Killed, ~ Mine Fire Steel 48%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGE The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 119.95; rails, 28.15; utilities, 15.30. PRICES SATURDAY Last Saturday, Alaska Juneau nine stock closed at 3%, Anaconda , Bethlehem Steel 56 Com- monwealth and Southern Cur- tiss Wright 7%, Internationa! Har- ester B7%, Kennecott 29, New Central 10%, Northern Pa- 7%, United States Steel 48, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: industrials 119.47, rails 28,08, utilities' 15.50. Jan. 11—Rescue workers have re covered 11 bodies from the smok: filled, flame-swept No. 15 Mine of the Pursglove Coal Mining Com- pany. The rescue workers are continuin~ the search for the last two of 12 miners trapped underground by th fire which raged early yesterday. MORGANTOWN, West Virginia.| State tiss Brown, former United Senator of Michigan, was nominated by President Roosevelt! to be Price Administrator Brown replaces Leon Henderson who announced several weeks aso he was resigning as OPA head be- cause of a back ailment and poor eyesight, —.- - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 11.—Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker, of Glendale, Calif, is missing since the Alljed aerial raid on Rabaul, New Britain, on January 5, when Flying Fort- resses and a sgqaudron of Liberators damaged more than 50,000 tons of shipping in the harbor and shot down nine’ Japanese Zeros at that ime. The Allied Headquarters reported that Brig. Gen. Ennis G. White- head, Commander of the United Air Torce in this theatre of war, began ' happily in checking in the four-en- (Continued on Page Three) HOBANS IN FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. Vern J Hoban from Sitka are visiting in for a few days. They are re tered at the Baranof Hotel w in town. Mr. Hoban is attact to the U. 8. Sumal Corps in and is a form:- member of i Signal Corps, Juneau office. Juneau