The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX.. NO. 9238. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 JAPS ARE STRENGTHENING KISKA BASE ossacks Sweep INVADERS ARE ROUTED FROMTOWNS Triumphant Homecoming | for Black-Caped So- | viet Horsemen \ MOSCOW, Jan. 12—Led by Cos- sacks slashing their way triumphant- ly back to their homeland, the Red Army has rolled the Germans back | in the Kuban River region of tho‘j western Caucasus between the | mountains and the Don River, the Russians announced today. Red Star, Soviet Army newspaper, | declared the Kuban region was pene- | trated after the Caucasian provinces in the north—Osteia, Kabardino and Bakaria—were freed of the Germans in the continuing winter drive. A commnnique said the Red Army’s cavalry has driven 15 miles into the enemy’s positions and that fierce night fighting was followed with the capture of six more key towns in the Caucasian region. The Fourth Guards of the Cos- sack Corps, Kuban fighting men (C}:n“tlhued 0;, Page Three) The Washingion Merry - Go - Round | By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON .—The other day, | Lieut. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell pushed a button on his desk and sent for an officer of the Real Es- tate Section of Army Engineers. That officer had been engaged in such projects as condemning and purchasing girls’ schools for con- version to military purposes, so he was surprised, and a little amused, when he heard Somervell’s request. “I want you to find an apart- ment,” said Somervell, “for the Elmer Davises (Director of the Of- fice of War Information), and it must be a place where they can| keep a cat.” The officer obligingly scoured the town, first found an apartment in the Marlyn—only to learn that the Davis cat would not be admitted. Somervell kept abreast of develop- ments, and at one point the idea was considered of condemning an apartment and taking it over. Finally the officer found a nook | on Sixteenth Street, where all the Davises, human and feline, ‘could be housed. Pleased with this success, Somer- vell promptly gave his officer an- ciher little housing assigr:ment. The British Gcovernment had sent to Washington their noted Gen. Sir Walter Venning, to serve as Di. tor General of the British Minis-| try of Supply Mission. But Sir Walter and his Lady were having| housing troubles. They had secured a small apart- ment in the Shoreham, but want- ed something larger. Gen. Somer- vell, as Chief of U. 8. Services of Supply, knew Sir Walter, anc/| promised to fix everything. Promptly, he sent his Real Es- tate officer to the Shoreham, where it was learned that a larger apart- ment was about $0 be vacated. But | there were complications. Two Ad- mirals of the U. S. Navy had heard the same news, and their Wwives were already competing for the precious space. One was the wife of Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Com- mander of the U. S. Fleet in the battle of the Java Sea, and she was confident that, on the basis| of rauk, her husband being a full admiral, would have superior claims. But Gen. Somervell put an enl: to the argument by taking the | apartment for Sir Walter. That was was that. CAPITAL CHAFF At a dinner given by Assistant Secretary of State Berle a few days before the assassination of Ad- miral Darlan, two Fighting French- men, Andre Tixier and Admiral (canunuednmom) When Bombs Hit Carrier These pictures were taken from an official U. S. aboard an aircraft carrier under Japanese bombardments in the Pa- The carrier was damaged, but NOT sunk. Top: On deck to fight fire, crewmen rush to avoid a Jap bomb hurtling at them. Note man in foreground peering skyward over shoulder. bursts on the carrier's deck near the spot the men were running from a short time before. Bottom: The hole torn in the deck by the bomb. Here smoke rises (left baskground) deck (left) are damage control men. controlled, holes patched and planes landed on the deck. i eific. 30 Percent Increase, | Alaska Salmon Pack, Possible Says Ickes WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — A 3C percent increase in the Alaska sal- mon pack is possible, and if given adequate labor and equipment, Al- aska's vast fishing waters could furnish an estimated pack of six to six-and-one-half million cases in 1943, Harold L. Ickes, Fishing Co- ordinator said today. This compares with the 1942 pack of 5015375 cases, indicating an' in- crease of 20 to 30 percent is pussible The greater potential yield would result directly from wise conserva- tion measures evolved by the Fish and Wildlife Service gnd practiced in Alaska over a period pof years, according to Ickes, but the Alaska | salmon industry, the most important of its kind in the world, faces many problems during the coming season. Main Problems Chief among these are the taking of tenders and other floating equip- . ment by the war agencies, and the lack of an adequate labor supply. Navy film taken Center: The bomb from another hit. At edge of A short time later fires were | These factors would seriously curtail ! he pack in Bristol Bay and the! Alaska Peninsula areas, reducing the s»ack by a million or a million-and- a-half cases, even eliminating this field entirely. This pack is largely red salmon, the most desirable srade. Although a fair pack was taken ast year, much of it never reached | he grocery shelves, and salmon for | ivilians is scarce. It is valued by the Army and Navy as an export | food. Need Workers, Equipment . The probable pack for all of Al-| iska this year will lie between the wo extremes mentioned by Ickes, yith the total dependent on the | wailability of temporary labor and ransportation in the spring and | summer months. | “If the personnel and equipmmb an be secured,” said Jekes, “I do| 0t know where more protein tood[ NAPLES IS CAIRO, Jan. 12—Four-engined | | Liberators of the U. 8. Army's | | Ninth Air Force bombed Naples in DR. H. A, KELLY, e | . FBN.. TN [ { The Hornet was previously iden- | image | forms through the ages, but under Back To Russian Homeland Light Cruiser Juneau IsSunk in Battle; Other U. S. Craft Go Down In Solomons. RAIDED BY AMERICANS Itahan Supply Port Smash-| ed at in Daylight | Attack ‘ daylight yesterday, hitting the har- bor installations and shipping. This was the 38th attack of the | war on this hard-hit Italian sup-| |oly port and the first attack in| |1943 atter repeated raids in De- | cember. } An Italian report said “damage | was slight. In the collapse of some | | civilian buildings, the population ' suffered losses of 23 dead and 75 injured.” The Allied report said a “heavy it cloud cover obscured the results, ' Light cruiser Juneau, named although one very large fire which penetrated th‘ overcast, was seen.” | |after the City of Juneau, the first war vessel of the United States namegdf after a part of Alaska, | wentidown in the battle off Santa JA p ZEROS {Cruz Island, Solomons Group, in| | mid-November, according to an |official statement made by the SHOI DOWN | Navy Department in Washington. |sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz The, official Navy communique WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, — Four Island on October 16, and identi- regm the battle in which the \Juneau. and also har sister ship, the Atlanta, were sunk follows: The Navy announces that the Jap Zero fighters were shot downfied at the samg time, three cruis- | and one American Wildcat fighter|ers and seven destroyers hereto- lost, the Navy announced this af- fore reported sunk but unidenti-| ternoon, when the Japs attacked a | fied flight of our dive bombers in the The othe: Central Solomons. Nmmrnmton The four Zero planes downed | |tineau Channel at one time), the raises to 680 the number of planes light cruiscr Juneau and sister the Japs have lost in the Solo- ship light cruiser Atlanta, and de- stroyers Monson, Cushing, Benham, | Preston, Walke, Barton and Leff. The Porter was lost in the same e the heavy cruiser (which was on Gas- mons. tified. The er ships Juneau and At- lanta were lost in the great mid- November Battle of Guadalcanal. The Northumpton was lost north of Guadalcanal in the same battle shat cost the Japs 37 vessels sunk and 18 damaged. 1 GREAT MEDICAL | AUTHORITY, DIES Was Member of Big Four’ of Johns HOpkinS“ The Howner was sunk by her h 5 own crew after six attacks by Life of Action bombers @i torpedo planes had { A damaged lier beyond any hope of BALTIMORE, Jan. 12—Dr. How- ‘*!Va8€: ard Atwood Kelly, 84, internation- 3 ally known medical authority and (RUISER JUNEAU WAS member of the “Big Four” of the CHRISTENED OCTOBER, Johns Hopkins Medical School here,' 1941, BY MRS. LUCAS died today after a brief illness. He light crumser Juneau was caused wide discussion toward the icd on October 25, 1941, at end of his scientific career by J, by Mrs. Harry I " voicing disbelief in some phases of Luc of the Mayor of Ju- the doctrine of human evolution. Upon his election in February,| The speedy powerful vessel was 1931, as trustee of the William Jen-|a 6.009-ton cruiser, the first Navy nings Bryan University at Dayton, sel to be named for any part Tenn., an institution which had its/of Alaske and joined the United genesis in the famous Scopes trial |States Fleel as a very important :rowing out of the teaching of fighting unit, :-amuu(lagpd and 120,000-ton Hornet was the carrier|, | V. McKittrick, Lattie. 1 Commission Commissioned at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., on February 14, 1942, the $13,000,000 Juneau was sister ships now bullding further characterized by Rear Ad:) con. miral Adolphus Andrews, USN.,| “We must always remember while Commandant, Third Naval Dis-|our sea, land and air fizhters are trict, as another “step toward vic-|meeting the Axis throughout the tory.” world, there has to ve action. here The en another front—tne industrial stap toward victo Admiral An- drews asserted. “We welcome the Juneau as o very imooitant fight- ing unit of tne fleet, and may hrer Join her ready for Juneati” was the first ship ommissioned_ in camouflage Shcjnm‘ A vast army of #i hed work- weld another distinetion—(wo' mul- [ men- welders, steam ind ear- e sets of brothers among her|penter v owara w of 6U0—the Sullivans of Wat- victor t clo 1 and 1loo, Iowa: Gi e, 27; Francis, th I lanies he 5 eph, 23; Madison, 22; and|will be our hattle din.” t, 19; and the Rogers of| A ship of the USS. At sridgepo Connecticut: Joseph, |lanta, the Juncau emoodied the 24; Patrick, 22; Louis, 20; and|mocst advanced desis Her Ikeel James, 18. W laid May 27, 1240, at Kearny Juneauites’ Relative Aboard J. Her exact speed was a nult- Abcard the Juneau as chief gun-|tary secret, but naval officers suld A ¢ rwe Mantere, nt than 30 knots. She brother-in-law of George Shaw|had 30 c ers and €00 men. w Porter, Juneau tain Swenson was graduated sidents. They received word from|frcm the Naval Academy i 136 commanded a submarine in the last war and before his assign- ment was commander of a destroy- er division in the Atlantic. Sympathy Expressed Mayor Harry I. Lucas today re- eeived the following radiogram fromn Seattle, signed by Vice Admiral krank Jack Fletcher: “The Commandant of the Thir- teenth Naval District and Com- mander of the Northwest Sea Fron- tier joins you and your citizens in uim in December that he had been mjured and was in a hospital but cxpected to be transferred soon to inother hospital. The speedy, powerful vessel was ommissioned four months ahead of schedule and turned over to Capt. L. K. Swanson, of Provo, Jtah, by Admiral Andrews. About 500 invited guests and res of yard workers watched rom the shore as Captain Harold ptain of the yard | ead the commissioning order to|your sense of the loss in the news . Captain Swenson, who dedicated |of the sinking of the U.S.S. Juneau 1s ship to “the destruction of all{and joins you too, in justifiable nemies of the Un States.” pride in the ship and in the de- ! Admiral And: 50 Comman- | struction she has wrought upon ;der of the a Frontier, | the enemy.” n a brief address referred to the| From the above, “our Juneau “courageous and fabulous exploits” | went down fighting. There has SUPPLIES MOVE IN AT NIGHT | Big Thrust b—yi S. Expedt- ed with Coming of Long Days | WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Under cover of the long Arctic nights, |the Jap invaders of Kiska Island lin the smoky Aleutian Islands ap- pear to be receiving supplies and | reinforcements. | Military authorities, who declined to be quoted by name, express the |opinion, however, on the basis of |all available information, that the enemy's hold on the bleak outpost is little if any more secure than |last fall when the U 8. Armv's air |attacks eased off because darkness had set in for the winter. One of the most recent indica- tions that the Japs are not idle came when two Lightning fighters, escorting medium bombers in a raid over Kiska, were shot down by feair float-type Zero fighters on Lecernber 30. Only one of the Zeros was de- stroyed and that was the first evi- dence in many weeks that the enemy had float planes at Kllkl Officials expressed surprise that the Japs were able to move in such reinforcements. I'he present type of desultory ds by our forces are expected o continue until longer days and improving weather make possible the resungption of heavy attacks and the beginning of amphibious operations designed to plant the American flag once more over the invaded Alaskan soil! AMERICANS ADVANCING " ONISLAND May Be Sia—rTof General | Offensive on Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — The Navy announced that Americans on Guadalcanal in four places have advanced against the Japs in what | might be the start of a general of- fensive to drive the Japs off the island. The report didn't say in what areas the advances were made. CANADIAN of the Alaskan pioneers, and urged | been no immediate advices regard- officers and men of tne Juneau (o|ing loss of life, etc. ake a new inspiration” trom tnem | That Silver Service wd help “sccure for posterity the| It will be remembered that the America they helped to build.” | citizens of Juneau raised $1,200 for He thanked the workers for their|a silver service for the Juneau. strenuous efforts in rushing the Well, the silver service was not ship’s completion and emphasized placed aboard the Juneau during the importance of the industrial the duration and ismswrageelther front in the war effort. “Every shA,) commissioned is a to Mayor Lucas. revolution in Tennessee public ischools, Dr. Kelly stated that he accepted the evolution hypothzslx with definite reservations. He held that man, created in the of God, had progressed downward, rather than rising from lower forms of life. Animals, he conceded, had changed their a process directed by God, the cre- ator, Wins Degree at 19 Born February 20, 1858, in Cam- den, N. J,, Dr. Kelly won his bach- elor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania when he was only 19 years old, and then began the study of medicine. His studies, how- cver, were interrupted by impaired health and during part of 1880 and part of 1881, he went to Elbert County, Colorado, and became a cowboy, riding the range in search of health. He returned to Philadelphia and resumed the study of medicine, taking his degree in 1882. Dr. Kelly's life was filled with By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON Jan 12—If you can believe the handwriting on the wall, that old greeting, “Good morn- ing. Judge,” soon is going to be a rood deal more cheery when you ave to make your bow to the “his honors” of the traffic courts all over the nation. With the public becoming very “government-conscious” as a re- sult of the war, there’s a move on to get rid of “horse and buggy practices” indulged in by many traffic courts. Sen. Abe Murdock of Utah re-| (Continued on Page TII;ee) . (Continued on Page su) "Good | Morning, Judge Going fo Take on New Slant in Many States |Congress a lengthy report by the | practices and conditions that pre- cently brought to.the attention of ! AUSTRALIANS SCOREHITS ON NIPPON SHIPS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 12--Aussic air- men scored their first aerial tor- pedo hits in the southwest Pa- cific area Saturday with a blast at a Jap warship and either a light cruiser or a heavy destroyer as our ocean and ground forces closed in on and enveloped the Japs in Sanananda corridor on Pa- puan Peninsula, New Guinea BRI B National Committee on Traffic Law Enforcement. When congressmen ind other government officials read that “in 42 citles of over 100,000 population, four out of every ten irrests are for traffic offenses they began to sit up and take no- tice. Sald Senator Murdock: “We arc oing through substantial changes n our daily life. #These changes are making us increasingly iware that we still have wth us in this ‘motor age many of the A new method of loading tank cars salvages large quantities of oil usually lost through evapora- " (Continued on Page Three) | tion. i in New York or Newark, IILCOXdll\HA DE(ORATED’ ANCHORAGE 'Air Medal for Heroism Is Awarded Saf. Maj. John Wallace | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 12.— | Heroism in insisting on the rescue {of three crew members while he was pinned under a burning plane, won Sgt. Maj. John Wallace of the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Halifax-Nova Scotia-American Air Medal. Serving as a pilot with the U.'S. forces, Wallace took off with his crew on a flight September 21 in their Canadian bomber loaded with depth charges and anti-submarine ° bombs. Barely off the ground, the port (engine cut out and Wallace kept the craft aloft until he cleared the runway and the bombs were | jettisoned. The plane soon crashed and caught fire. b