The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9240. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THUR SDAY, JANUARY 14, 1943 MEMBEI R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— ALLIES NIP ATTEMPTED JAP SNEAK RAID Russians Contin RED ARMY 15 STAGING COMEBACK Sepa rategfiarhead At- | facks Stabbed-Many Towns Recaptured MOSCOW, Jan. 14 — The Red Army’s comeback drive through the Caucasus is reported fanning out wider on both sides of the Rostov- Baku trunk line as separate spear-| head assaults were stabbed on ad- vances through towns more than 20 miles west and 50 miles north of recaptured Mineralnye Vody. Despite the German attempts at a stand, the Russians are broad- ening the offensive front and are| fighting unchecked in steady rains, and wet snow has bogged down| tha fertile valley fields with mud And - water. vme dozen towns have been won back under the Red Banner and (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON. — As he ap- proached the end of his tenth yedr in office, President Roosevelt was in amazingly good health. Despite | the press of work placed on every | President, plus the additional stmin: of the war, Roosevelt seems almost in better health than ever. Looking back on the first year| of the war, Admiral Ross T. Mec-| Intire, personal physician to the| President, says: i “This has been one ot the Presi-| dent's best years. He hasn't been sick a day since Pearl Harbor. In fact, he hasn’t been sick for 18 months. His last illness was in May, 1941, when he had that in- testinal upset for ten or twelve| days. ? i “He started a cold the other day, but we hopped on it right away| and knocked it out. In a case llke1 that, we cut down on his food, and | shift to fluids, and the President alkalizes himself. “That was on a Tuesday, and at first I thought we might have to cancel the President’s Tuesday af- ternoon press conference. But he snapped out of it so well that I| let him go ahead with the cou- ference. “It's not hard to put the Presi-| dent on a light diet at such a time, because he actually likes milk toast and boiled rice, and that's what he gets when he has a cold.” Admiral McIntire visits the Presi- dent, sick or well, every morning at his bedside. His latest pro-| nouncement, s the President neared the end of ten years in| office, is: “He’s exceptionally well.” CAPITAL CHAFF Mrs. Eisenhower, wife of North African commander, got a letter from her husband on Christ- mas morning. He had taken time out from preparing the offensive against Tunisia, to write his wife a Christmas letter on December | 14. It arrived exactly on time. . . . CIO leaders Jim Carey, R. J. Thomas and John Green have been invited by the British to visit Eng- land to study labor cooperation with industry. Various -ad- mirals were trying to get a peekl at the new M-G-M picture “Stand By for Action” before its release.| Sponsored by the Navy League,| the picture is considered by the sea-dogs one of the best sea-action | pictures ever put out. The British Government has been wor- ried over the continual criticism by | ‘Wendell Willkie. They figure it is a line-up with Pearl Buck, the, great Chinese champion, Henry Luce, who doesn't much love the; British, and Corliss Lamont, son| of the J. P. Morgan partner and a| (Continued on Page Four) | without g iving 1S RAPED BY |the movie star, Errol Flynn, Betty ue WAR SHIFTS AMERICA'S MILLIONS DEC. 1941 DEC. 1942 DEC. 1943 i" '.ii'.....“ > e e e T e eeee s @ T e e e oo 3 *mg“ l::mll PARRRRARERRNRN NRRRRRRRNRAAND CIVILIAN INDUSTRIES ST iiis sttt s was AARARERRRRARAR RRRRRRRRRRARRN INDUSTRIES 3 *' *"**' <. ARMED FORCES AGRICULTURE SELF-EMPLOYED PROPRIETORS SERVANTS JOBLESS Each Symbol Equals 1,000,000 Men And Wo AP Feotures Recent government estimates show war industries The total will be 20,- ted to rise to at least War is bringing increasingly drastic changes in jobs. employing 17,500,000 men and women, up more than 10,000,000 from a year ago. 000,000 or more a year from now. Armed forces, now 5,500,000 or more, are expec 9,000,000. Farm workers, now a little over 8,000,000, had been expected to shrink a little, but increased food Japs Claim Sinking of ~ NIGHT RAID AGAINMADE, Hornet Wasin Revenge For Toyko Raid, Aprii 18 KRUPEPLANT NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—A Japan- | The broadeast, reported by gov- Essen and O’hel’ Ta[gets in ese broadcast, picked up here, as-|ernment monitors and the Office of Ruhr Va"ey Bombed serted that the Hornet, identified | war Information, as saying the | Germans Strike Back Monday by the American Navy 2s|sinking of the Hornet “was in re- the airplane carrier sunk October | yenge for the raid” on Tokyo. 26 in the battle of Santa Cruz Islands, was the vessel that carried the planes that bombed Tokyo on April 18. The broadcast was beamed tor Jap communities in East Asia and said, authority, that it “was disclosed that the Hornet brought the North American bomb- ers during the attack on Japan.” The broadcast, said the Office of War Information, said Tokyo also | gave some indication as to how deeply the Tokyo attack rankles the Japanese. The broadcast also said that the date, April 18, “can never be forgot- ten by one hundred million Jap- | anese people.” (By Associated Press) Essen, the hard hit home of the giant Krupp armament works, which has been battered by hun- dreds of tons of explosives and in- cendiaries in night raids, was at- tacked for the third time last night and others sections of the Ruhr Valley were also smashed, the British Air Ministry announced this morning. Four of the bombers that carried out the concentrated twelve-minute downpour of de- struction were lost. Although other sections of the Ruhr Valley were bombed, Essen was the main target Bombing Admitted The German High Command, in in early morning bulletin broad- lcast from Berlin admitted that | ‘British aircraft raided the west- n German territory during the Brifain's Minesweepers 0f Air Destroy Hitler's "Secref Weapon,' Report LONDON, Jan. 14—The British Air Ministry released a three-year- old secret today in telling how!night and Essen was the main tar- Wellington bombers helped clear|get, The population suffered losses the seas around Great Britain’s|and much damage was done, pi coasts of the deadly magnetic mines jdominately to buildings.” which were once Hitler's “secret| In retaliation, German bombers ! weapon” and which threatened the |attacked plantson England’s south- supply lines to these islands. cast coast early this morning. Dur- R During the last three months 39 ing the night German raiders set minesweepers of the. air, equipped“ xtensive fires in the city of Sun- with a “hoop-shaped casing extend- !derland and also its shipyards. ing all around them, secured to; The Germans said the British their nose, wings and tails,” have bombers last night let loose an cleared the channel of the. mag- average of 81 tons of bombs, both netic mines. fire and explosives, in one minute The casing around the Welling-|on Essen. tons, minesweepers of the air, held'| RAF operated against France a magnetic coil and the current and Holland last night and report- was supplied by an auxiliary engine jed much destruction was accom- which set up a magnetic current |plished. which set off the new type of mine.' |When the mines exploded, the| Flynn's trial on three counts of | | Wellingtons would be severely jolt-| ed and the crews, having no w;u‘n-i as statutory rape, involving her and‘ing of the explosions, could "0% i |even brace themselves and many | sogiies gl | times were tossed about. While she » gave her testimony s unhesitatingly and distinetly, Flynn | JUNEAU YOUNG MAN PROMOTED, SERGEANT watched her closely, chin in hand. The ,jury is composed of nine women and three men, two of them grandparents, and all but two parents. Corporal Kenneth Lea has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, By JACK STINNETT according to information reaching| WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Wash- Juneau from his headquarters to|ington landmarks are numerous the Westward. it e Lea, formerly with the Union has ever been here more than a TWIN FALLS, Idaho. — Alton|oil Company here, enlisted early | few hours will misunderstand when Young, proprietor of the last dairy!in the war and went to the West- I say that one of the never-to-be- to maintain home delivery in this ward with his command. He visit- | forgotten things has been cabby agricultural community, says his'ed here several weeks late last|chatter that comes from the capi- wagons have stopped running. Rea-|year while on furlough. He is the tal's taxi drivers. sons: no tires, no help. son of Mr. and Mrs. Hatry Lea. For years, it has been impos- | sible to sit in a Washington_ taxi Housewivés can still get milk, but | they must go to the market for it.| and discuss the weather, the high LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 14— Gazing squarely and severely at Hansen, 17, told the jury today how ae disrobed and was intimate with her in an upstairs bedroom after 2 dinner party at the home of Fred McEvoy, former ®ritish sportsman, on September 27. The blonde school girl is the State's first major witness in ingfon (a . Give Safety Traffic | Lectures as Chalfer measumm woves Offl'(_E_S UPSTAIRS G from quarters on the second floor AR BUY DEFENSE BONDS r ‘ and interesting, but no visitor who | 2 STRATEGIC PLACES FALL, FRENCHHANDS Allied AiquuadronsMake; Extensive Raids Both | on Land and Coast | 2 STRATEGIC PLACES spn \ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 14.—French troops in Tunisia, attacking north- west of Kairouan, have captured two strategic heights. The French | spokesman described the gains as| important and said the captured! heights were Jebel Haoub and Jebel Bou Davouss that jut from the desert northeastward from Pichon. Allied air squadrons operating with Gen. Montgomery's British Eighth Army rained bombs on the | airfields and other objectives near Misureta and machine gunned mo- tor convoys both in Tripolitania | and Tuni | Alr: squ: | rons @lso blasted the | port of Sousse azain and damaged + merchant vessel off the Tunisian coast | A Cairo communique says four Messerschmitts were shot down and others damaged but eight Allied planes failed to return to the Al-| giers Allied base. | GERMANY TRYING T0 SLIP IT OVER ON UNITED STATES SuggesfsEfcfilgeoMrm- | istice Commission for | Americans in Vichy | WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, — Th State Department discloses that| Germany is trying to obtain the| release of its North African Armis- | tice Commission, captured by Am'i erican troops last November, by making an exchange of American diplomats held in France, contin- gent upon release of the German officials. The American diplomats | were held when the Vichy Govern- | ment broke relations with the United States in November. The State Department’s an- nouncement explained that the United States “promptly proposed through the Swiss Gdvernment an| exchange of American diplomats in | France for former French officials | held here.” | The blunt German ‘answer, as| reported by the Swiss Governm:nt, was that no consideration will be! given. for the departure of Am can officials in France until in mation is furnished about the Ger- man Armistice Commission in North Afr The answer said th German consul in Algiers desired the information being obtained by | the State Department with a view of its transmission to his govern- | ment. | The State Department, as is customary, howe does not con- sider this information about the captured Germans any relation to the question of exchange of the French and American personnel. bbies | price of eggs, the state of the na- tion, the defections of certain con gressmen, or what’s the matter with Aunt Tillie, without gettin a windy, but frequently salty, di-scr tation from the driver's scat Capital cabbies put the tradition gabby barbers in the shade Some of this is no doubt due ! the fact that Washiniton - small and have no g al partition: | (Continuea on Page Two) Military Wedding in Lieut. Donald M. Brittain of Wa Hawaii shington, D. C., and his bride, the former Miss Frances L. Vasconcellos of Hawaii, are shown after their wedding at the Schofield Barracks chapel, Honolulu, The bridegroom’s buddies were dressed in khaki battle uniforms instead of the traditional dress whites and held crossed tommy guns instead of sabres. The bride and groom rode away in an Army tank and were followed by Brittain’s entire battalion in light tanks. Dimond fo Infroduce 717 Bills at Present Session of (ongress THREE JAP DESTROYERS SENT DOWN Sinking of Craft Off Aleu- tians Told by Medalled Torpedoman SAN DIEGO, Calif, Jan. 14. Navy Torpedoman James Daven- port, of Newport, Rhode Island, to- day *is wearing the Navy Marine Corps Medal for his work aboard a United States submarine that sank three Jap destroyers ncar the Aleu- tians on July 4. Capt. Byron McCandless, acting for the President, pres d the medal at the ceremony at the de- stroyer base here yesterday Davenport described the attack which was first announced by the Navy Department on July 6. Davenport said: “We caught the three destroyers sitting like ducks on a bay and sank ali of them with four torpedoes. Two of the ships did not have time to cven haul up their anchors when hit amidships, and they went dow One destroyer, Davenport “was able to fire a torpedo ! sub and it passed over our o« tower. A moment later on sub’s torpedoes ripped a hole It Jap destroyer and that craft went down.” aid ‘Treasurer Oscar moved his stafl Territorial Glsen has eir « the Federal and Territorial Building to occupy rooms “on lhe ird floor, making room for the mng session of the Legislature I'he Treasurer’s offices will be in 300 and 311, Mr. Olson may found in room 300. ———————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska has made public a list of 27 bills he said he would introduce in the 78th Congress: | The list follows: | A bill to amend the first section of the Act of 1915 reserving lands for educational purposes so as to reserve Section No, 33 in each town- ship for the University of Alaska. | A bill providing for *waiver of prosecution by indictment in certain | criminal proceedings in the courts of the Territory of Alaska. A bill to extend the benefits of the United States Public Health Service to fishermen | A bill to provide minimum salary or compensation of $150 per month to each United States Commissioner. A bill to provide by annual regu- lations priority if employment in the fisheries to bonafide residents of Alaska. A bill to amend the act relating to manifests in Alaskan and Insular trade. This bill seeks to amend the act so as to exempt from the op- erations of “the law vessels sailing in and out of Alaska, authorized |under their documentation to en- gage in the fisheries. A bill to forbid the appointment of any person but a resident of the Territory of Alaska Yo the office of Governor of the 'rn-‘rnory, such per- son being a bonafide ident of the , Territory for the period of at least three years immediately preceding the date of such appointment A bill for the relief of Frank T. Been for loss of personal effects in the fire which destroyed the super- intendent’s residence in Mount Mec- Kinley National Park on October 23 939 A bill to permit cost of surveys b made for patent to be accredited to annual assessment labor made on mining claims. A bill to facilitate and expedite the administration of procurement activities of the Department of the Interior in and for Alaska by in- creasing from $100 to $300 the limi- tation of purchases which may be made without advertising A bill to extend the Workmen Compensation, Laws of Alaska to Federal reservations and to other Federal property located within the boundary of the Territory. This bill would afford to workmen on Federal reservations and other Federal prop- |erty within Alaska the benefits of | (Continued on Page Two) | To Sweep On Wide Front DESTROYERS BEATEN OFF, SEA FIGHT Motor Torpedoboats Gang ; Up on Enemy Craft in Guadalcanal Sector | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.— Motor torpedo boats of the Allies, especi- ally Americans, in a dashing battle against Jap destroyers, damaged two and possibly a third enemy de- “rover of Guadalcanal, the Navy reported today. The enemy vessels were presum- ably attempting a sneak raid, car- rying reinforcements to Guadalcan- al and shooting at Allied positions, but were forced to withdraw to the northwest by the furious torpedo boat assault. Another communique released said the United States ground forces on Guadalcanal are centinuing their advance, supported by the air force. X PRI 25 AN AIR ATTACKS MADETODAY, ENEMY BASES Flying Fortresses, with Heavy Escorts, Make Daylight Raids ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 14. — Slowed iown on the ground by a pouring 1 that turned the whole Sanan- sector in New Guinea into a wumpy bog, the Allied Comman- o1s broadened their air attack to- day against the Japanese with day- light raids on four bases. A single Liberator raided Ma- dang and Finschhafen on the nor- thern New Guinea coast. Northwest of Lae, Flying Fort- resses, supported by medium bomb- crs and fighters, struck at both Lae nd Salamaua. Over Gusmata, New Britain, a Liberator shot down two and prob- ably three out of six Zeros which tried to interrupt a reconnaissance. Several Jap fighters were also destroyed on the ground during the reconnaissance. HOLD KODIAK TAXI DRIVER ON ROBBERY Alleged to Havé Stolen $34,000 in Cash, $5,000 Jewels KODIAK, Alaska, Jan. 14.—Alvin Sacopetti, about 25 years old, taxi driver, is being held for the Grand Jury in April under $5,000 bail, wrged with receiving stolen prop- orty ‘after wllegedly passing burned currency said to have been identi- tled as coming from the William A. Schultz cafe safe. Stolen October 21 bodily from the Schultz apartment behind the rlace of business, the Ship’s Tav- ern Cafe, the safe contained about $34,000 in cash and $5,000 in jew- clry Onecopetti 15 said to have passed <bout $500 of the charred edged bills in various business places, in- cluding one identified by Schultz 25 being in the safe at the time wnd had the Ship’s Tavern written cn it in. ink. Sacopetti did not stify today, ,ees BUY DEFENSE BONDS