The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9239. — —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1943 — e PRICE TEN CENTY IWEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZI PLANES SMASHED BY U. S. RAIDERS RUSSIANS PRESSING AHEAD NOW Germans Th”r;ling Tanks,“ Warplanes Into Stiffen- | ing Stand in Caucasus | MOSCOW, Jan. 13.—The Ger-| mans today threw in tanks and warplanes in a stiffening stand in the Caucasus, making a desperate attempt to cover their forces hold- ing the Maikip oilfields on the Black Sea coast farther west, but| the Russians have reported further gains and more villages recap- | tured. 1 Red Star, mouthpiece for the Russian Army, said that the battle | is becoming more violent, particu- | larly along the rail line toward Rostov. From the recaptured Mineralyne | Vody battlefront, dispatches said| that the Russians are maintaining | their pressure along the entire 100-| mile front, from the deep Cauca-| sus to the lower Kalmyck Steppes, | while other forces just to the north‘ bear down the Nazi Sal River saving his ship was accomplished P. 0. Depa In preparation for the siege of | Salsk, another milestone on the| road to Rostov, strong German counter attacks are reported on| the Lower Don front as well as in! the Caucasus. | Izvestia sald one such attack on the Lower Don threatened an im-| portant Russian .line..of .communi- ! cation, but was repelled by Red! IN SOLOMONS German Retreat \Lone NippIRaids Hen-| | | 1 U.S.-JAPS (Continued on Page Two) Ship Saved Affer Atfack The seaplane tender U. S. S. McFarland, a converted 1,200-ton destroy- er, is pictured at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after her return from the South Pacific. A large section of her stern was blown away when the warship was attacked by Japanese dive bombers off Guadalcanal last October 16. This picture shows the McFarland’s emergency stern, with the jury rudder made of telephone poles. Alderman, U. S. N,, ably assisted by Commander Earle G. Gardner, U. S. N. riment Has B e Marching Song; Ash Trays Being Eymped | o | | [ [ The heroic job of by youthful Commander John C. is executive officer, Lieutenant By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Shades of the Pony Express! The Post- office Department hds got itself a marching song. As nearly as your correspondent’s unmusical ear could make out, it isn’t h2da either. Music and lyrics were written by a | couple of fellows who should know | for they have both served the post- office for years. { Some of the couplets go: “I carry| the mail for Uncle Sam, I take it| through with speed and wham”;| and “I bring your mail from far "Most Jurors Qualified for | | organized ‘Pullcn. James C. Ryan, Robert E.| The Germans were forced tore- treat, the paper said, and the Don offensive. was hampered by a cold The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON i (Major Robert 8. Allen on sciive duty.) | derson Field - Amer- icans Hit Munda WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—A Jdp plane, dumping hombs near Hen- | and near, I'm next of kin to Paul |it it there right on the minute, and |derson Field on Guadalcanal Is-| WASHINGTON. — Behind the land, killed one man and wounded | visit of ex-Ambassador Joseph P. several others, it is announced to-| Kennedy to the White House recent- day. ly was the fact that Joe was about At the same time, American air-! to publish a book. The President, craft continued to pound the en-| hearing about the book, and know- emy airfield at Munda. ! ing something of Joe's mercurial The Navy said a single Jap plane temperament so far as Roosevelt’s attacked Henderson Field, dropped foreign policies were concerned, | five bombs on American positions suggested that Joe send him alsouthwest of the airdrome. copy. It was the first bombing there Among other things, the Presi- | Since December 14 when only one | dent was fearful that | plane participated also. Kennedy | ¥ would disclose incidents during his | No. Aevial Opposition. was repori: term as U. S. Ambassador to Great ied encountered by the Amerlcan‘ Britain which would offend the | POmbers which are continuing their | British during wartime. regular attacks on the Jap air- {field at Munda. Anti-aircraft bat-| When FDR receive:(::; book, his | teries of the enemy were active, suspiclons were jusf . It had powever, and results of the attack the qualities of a sure best-seller, wore 10t reported. | but at the expense of a lot of peo-| * Groupg action on Guadalcanal, ple, including not only the British jneanynile was made up of small- | but Harry Hopkins. iscale offensives against enemy out- So the President suggested | posts and are being continued “sat- Joe that he drop in for & Visit.|istactorily” the Navy said, adding| And for about an hour the Presi-|that several enemy positions have | dent argued against publication °f1been surrounded., H the book now, indicating that it| | would play into the hands of Axis| | CHAS.BEDAUXIS “I don't care what you say after| o« i the war is over, Joe,” declared the "DE i President 1n effect, “but now is the U R ARRBI ? wrong time to say it.” l Kennedy finally agreed to hold I" "oRTH AFRI(A up publication. This has been a | blow to his Republican and isola- | | tionist friends who are still urging| him to publish the book before the tary of State Cordell Hull dis- 1944 elections. They figure it would | Closed this afternoon that Charles | be the best campaign document of | Bedaux, American industrial en- | the elections. |gincer, known as the author of | Meanwhile, it seems certain that ~Efficiency System,” for industry | the Prodigal will be given & job in- land labor, has been arrested in side the Administration. Joe's re-!NOTth Africa on a charge of trad- turn is meeting with & lot of op-|ing8 With the enemy. position from various New Dealers,‘ Secretary Hull said the news of but the President himself always Debaux’s arrest had come to him has been fond of Kennedy even Put he has not been informed as when they differed vigorously. He 0 the details. also realizes that Joe has great Bedaux came into prominence in influence among Irish - church]'““ when it was disclosed he was groups, some of which are not too arranging details for an American enthusiastic over the war. tour to be made by the Duke of Also Kennedy did an outstand-| Windsor. He subsequently dropped ing job of organising the Securi-|the idea- ties and Exchange Commission, and has a knack for getting along with > - Alaska produced furs to ' the value of about $136,000,000 between 1867 and 1935, (Continued ouil;l?efirgur)» | Lauderdale, i appointed Acting Pe Revere.” The boys got in a dig at a couple of old traditional mail | service gags, with the lines: “I get never peek to see what's in it.” My favorite is the plaint on the mail- man’s long hours and his absence of time for the little joys of life. It goes: “I carry on from dawn 'til| and spark.” Gone from the slip on the Poto-| mac near Fourteenth and Main avenue is the 75-room, “floating ho- tel,” Amphitrite, which has been getting notices in the dailies here for months. Ever since it came lumbering up the coast from Fort " Fla., to do its bit in relieving the Washington housing] situation, it has had troubles ga- | lore. To get it remodelled and re- furbished, its owners had to battle priorities. To get it moored, they had to scrap over rental right.s.‘ There were ruckuses with public utilities, local officials and WPB. But that's all over now. The Army | has taken over. | Shining like a millionaire's yacht, the motorless “waterway hostel” was towed silently away the other night. Destination—a military se- | cret. The Boston and St. John's night! club fire tragedies have had real| repercussions in Washington. Nearly all of the local department stores have hidden away their ash-trays and ‘posted “No Smoking” signs. The city fathers dug down in a dusty bin and unearthed an old trict’s fire protection laws and passed it pronto. \ Many of the night clubs, in-| cluding that free-for-all-service- men, the “Stage Door Canteen,”| are holding frequent fire drills.| The “Stage Door Canteen,” in the| old Belasco Theater, emptied its| packed interior the other night in} one minute and ten seconds, with- | out even a Marine stepping on an; Army man’s toe. | - | HUNGERFORD IS NOW MAYOR AT WRANGELL Veteran Councilman Howard H.| Hungerford, who has served six| years, has been n Mayor of Wrangell, following. tion of Lew M. Williams WHO has been GRAND JURY MEETS THIS | AFTERNOON January Term of Court Here Grand jurors for the January | term of the U. S. District Court | met at 2 o'clock this afternoon and for business. The first indictment is expected tomorrow. morning or afternoon. i Due to inadequate transportation | facilities, many jurors summoned | from out-of-way points were un-| |able to appear yesterday and had | |to be excused. | Fourteen had qualified to serve | this morning, and it was expected | that more than the necessary 16/ would be qualified this afternoon | before the grand jury met. The list is as follows: | Mrs. Olaf Bodding, Margaret Carter, Fred F. Frederickson, Jes- | sie L. Geeslin, Harry Haloff, Edythe | n, W. H. Matthews, Jessie Mc- | y, E. G. Nelson, Mrs. W. S.| Scott, Robert Simpson, Mary C.! Sutton, Mary Walmer, Wilbur| Wester and Frank Wilson, all of | Juneau; Esther Fremming, Elfin, Cove; J. H. Gilpatrick and Erick | Sulheim of Sitka, and A. B. Cal- | houn of Windham. { —e—— ALASKANS MAY GET FISH NOW Fifteen Th—ofisand Cases Released for Consump- | tion in Northland | The Office of War Information at Seattle today radiogramed the following to The Empire: Alaskans are to get salmon. Ci- vilian residents of Alaska were on} | dark, and don't have time to stop|Tuesday afternoon given a reason for general rejoicing when the| OPA, through its Alaska territorial | director, Mildred R. Hermann, an- | nounced that 15000 cases of canned salmon had been released to householders in the Sockeye Capital of the world. Although the salmon pack in Alaska for 1942 was unusually large, householders in that district were given less of their famous products than could be obtained in Kansas City or Kanakee. The reason for this, it appears, was that the salmon pack was shipped to distributors who in turn supply Army and Navy need.s‘ Fifty thousand cases are said to have been returned to Alaska through the Department of the Interior but little if any of this, consignment found its way into| regular trade channels. The result was that while resi- dents in California, Wyoming, Illi-| nois, or any of the 48 states were able to procure and enjoy the fam- ous sockeye crop of 1942, those in the land from whence it came got naught but a cold and fishy eye| from retailers when they too, ex-| pressed the wish for a can or two. | That, however, is now being ad- . justed to an appreciable extent Not only will Alaskans be given 15,- tas have been set for 1944 and 1945. e Food Prices Are Soaring WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The food price was up 16 percent last year and at the end of November | was 31 percent above the 1935 to 1939 average. This is the report made by the Federal Board. ———.————— In Alaska as early as 1861 gold discoveries were made on the ‘snkme River, | Alaska First Steel Plant on PacificCoast Starfed Henry J. Kaiser, America’s “can do” man, opened h s huge new steel mill at Fontana, Calif., recently The huge plant’s ninety coke ovens went into service with the start of the —first on the Pacific Coast. New Year. More than 600,000 tons of steel ingots will come from the great open hearth furnaces. thousand men toiled at the site, surrounded by peaceful orchards and farms, to complete switfly America’s latest badge of productive ability—the $100,000,000 Kaiser steel plant. “blew in” the huge blast furnace at impressive ceremones. The Fontana plant will produce enough steel in 1943 to build a thousand Liberty ships. War V(iou‘lruilm ' Issues Report After 2-Day Confab Here RUHR AGAIN HIT: NIGHT RAID MADE Planes Also Make Daylight Sweep Over France- Takeoff at Midday LONDON, Jan. 13.--British bomb- ers smashed the Ruhr Valley again last night in an air raid, the seventh attack in 10 nights. e | The Alaska War Council, ending | 'a two-day session here late yester- | France also was struck by a pro-' cession of daylight raiders, the first taking off shortly after midday to- day and flew through the bright spring-like skies over the Folkestone area toward Boulogne. FRENCH CAPTUR MURZUK, CAPITAL FELZAN DISTRICT LONDON, Jan. 13—~The Fight- |ing French Headquarters announc- es that Gen. LeClerc’s Army of the Chard has captured Murzuk, capi- tal of the Fezzan district in South- ern Libya and the advance units have also occupied Sebha, 150 miles further north. A bulletin broadcast from Rome and picked up here says the Ital- jans report ‘“overwhelming enemy forces compelled our troops to re- (treat from the Fezzan area, a pre- arranged new disposition of our WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Secre- | ordinance strengthening the Dis-|000 cases for 1943 but similar quo-|(oyces.” Martha S;a;Iy Is To Meet Friday The Martha Society of the Nor- thern Light Presbyterian Church will hold a combination business and social meeting Friday, Janu- ary 15, at 1:30 p.m. in the church parlor, Hostesses for the meeting will be Mrs. George Baggen and Mrs Tom Morgan. e Arizona highway patrol cars are equipped with cameras that record the speeds and license numbers of fast-driving motorists, day, took action on the following ' problems affecting the security and welfare of the Territory: | 1—Acted on the request of the | Commanding General of the Alaska | Defense Command in urging a r JUNGLES OF FORTRESSES ' IN ATTACK NO. AFRICA Deepest Penetration Into Libya Made by Fly- ing Forces ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA Jan. 13—United States warplanes destroyed 34 Nazi aircraft on the ground in a rald yesterday on the Castel Benito air- field 10 miles south of Tripoli. Flying Fortresses led the attack into Tripolitania from the west and knocked out 20 planes on the ground and downed 14 more dur- ing a blazing 75-milé running battle high in the air, The spokesman said this is the deepest penetration into Libya fly- ing fortresses have yet made. The fortresses were based in the west. Other American bombers made lan attack last Saturday against an airdrome 10 miles from Tripoli and possibly on the same field. Apparently instructed to stop the fortresses at any cost, the Germans avoided the escort of Lockheed Lightnings and raced into a con- centrated fire on the big bombers. Despite the efforts of the Ger- mans, all American planes returned to their base although one bomber came back with only two motors working, two hours after the others. Air activity dominated the day and night warfare. Reports from the ground fronts, indicate that only patrolling is tak- Four Genial, rotund Henry J. Kaiser | Goubella areas in morthern Tunis. NEW GUINEA FIGHT SCENE vy LOWS Allies Close End of Sanan- anda Point-Japs Make 'ARE STRUCK Raid on Merauke | |Ing place in the Bou Arada and. . ., ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AT ROMMEL dution in the hours in which liqguor AUSTRALIA, Jan. 13.—Allied jungle | may be sold in the Territory. “figmers pushed the remnants of the 2—Requestéd improvement of Al-|Jap Papuan Army back and closed | aska mail service between the Ter- |the end of Sanananda Point in French n’oopSAm Repo.l'" ritory and the States. | New Guinea as fighter planes raide ed to Have Captured more coal operations in Alaska. 4—Urged cooperation between the military and the U. S. Forest Service to obtain an increase in lumber pro- duction. 5—Emphatically protested to a Civil Service ruling denying a dif- ferential to workers employed in Alaska, but granting it to workers | recruited outside of Alaska. Members Present H Members of the Council present at the meeting included Gov. Ernest Gruening, Chairman; E. L. Bartlett, M. D. Williams, B, Frank Heintzle- man, R. C. Vogel, Hugh Hade. Howard Thompson of the Weath- er Bureau Ww: unable to attend. Liaison officers representing the Army and Navy in Alaska were Lieut. Col. Hobart Murphy of the ADC, and Lieut. Comdr. Simpson MacKinnon of the U. 8. Navy's Al- aska Sector. In urging earlier closing of liquor establisments, the Council sent tele- grams to mayors of all incorporated towns in Alaska and to commission- ers of unincorporated towns, re- questing on-premise drinking cease between midnight and 10 a.m., liquor} sold for off-premise consumption be sold only between 10 am. and 8 p.m. These are the hours set by military authorifies for drinking by service; men. Air Mail Irregular A telegram was sent to the Post- master General of the United States asking that the service of air mail, especially official air mail between | Alaska and the United States be improved. The Council urged that action be taken making more air-| plane equipment available for the Alaska routes. | “In recent weeks, alr mail service has been seriously irregular and entirely inadequate and we have been informed these frequent delays are due to lack of airplane equip- ment now assigned to Alaska air mail routes,” the Council stated. The Postmaster General also was | asked to revaluate the entire mail service in Alaska to determine whether the Post Office Department has done everything possible to meet the unusual and continuing prob- lems with which it is confronted in Alaska. In urging p’mmpl action looking (Continued op Page Six) innd blasted the bridge and trail to | yet on Merauke on the south coast | Komiatum, ten miles south. | The Japs at the same time de-| livered the heaviest bombing raid 3—Urged development of along the trail south of Salamau | Chadames ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 13.—Flying Fortresses, in the first full raid |on Tripolitania, struck heavy blows ion Rommel’s forces by battering |Chadames while the French troops in Tunisia drove the Germans out f the mountain pass, 23 miles north of Point di Fahs and cap- tured at least 180 prisoners. Chadames lies deep in the des- ert, 450 miles south of Tunis, the | juncture of ‘the fromtiers of Tuni- Frenchmen of Monarchist s Aleeria. and Tripoitanis. leanlngs Rounded Up, |quotes Gen. Olrn:d as sayi'x)lg the - Taken Info Custody | Germans now have 70,000 troops in | Tunisia. | British infantry and tanks are ALLIED HEADQUARTER IN reported to have made gains astride NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 13.—French- | 'he Goubellat Road, six miles north nen of monarchist leanings are ¢f Bou Arada and some 14 milez umong the several additional per- i-’o‘“h of Medjez er Bab. sons arrested during the past few| e days, in continuing the investiga- tion of the assassination of Jean l Darlan, it 4s reported. \ Names of the individuals have ot been announced, but their| Raid Tripoli, Homs, Crete, Sicily, Lampedusa for Two Days dentities are generally known in ugiers. l Some of those newly arrested said that they risked their lives to help the original American land- ings in this area. Throne Pretender Disappears The status or whereabouts of the Count of Paris, Pretender to the non-existent throne of France, who came to Algiers shortly after Dar- lan’s assassination, is the subject of general speculation. 1t is varfously reported that he is critically ill in Algiers, or that CAIRO, Jan, 13.—Allied bombers of the Middle East Command pounded at Axis-held Tripoli and at Homs, 65 miles further east Monday night, and other Allied Giraud said, and stated further planes followed up the attack yes- that the investigation of Darlan's|terday with raids on the Axis bases assassination is being prosecuted | at Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa Is- “without consideration of the pro-|land. minence of the persons involved,| A British communique reported nor of their political beliefs.” no new developments on the land > battlefront in Tripolitania. The name “Devil Dogs” was Banag i . o cman e acquired by the U. S. Marines dur-| The word Jehovah occurs nearly ing World War T 7,000 times in the Old Testament, of Dutch New Guinea. - MORE ARRESTS MADE, DARLAN ASSASSINATION he has returned to his pig farm in Spanish Morocco. General Giraud anll General De- Gaulle will meet soon, spokesman