The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 194‘3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS s —_PRICE TEN GENTY VOL. LX., NO. 9248. GREAT AXIS BASE OF TRIPOLI CAPTURED 15,0 BIG KILLING 15 MADE BY ALLIED UNITS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 23—The Japan- ese in all of the Sanananda Sector, New Guinea, have been overwhelm- ed and the Allied forces are now in control of the entire Papuan Pen- insula. The High Command also an nounces the destruction of 24,000 tons of Japanese shipping at Ra- bau, New Britain. The triumph at Sanananda means the elimination of the last three pockets of resistance held by the Jap Army that once totaled 15,000. In the last stages of the battle, 750 bodies of Japs have been count- ed and the counting continues. American and Australian troops carried out a most brilliant offen- sive while the Allled planes blasted all attempts of the Japs to send reinforcements from nearby islands. The Papuan Peninsula thus be- comes the first complete geograph- ical unit to be won back from the Japanese. The Peninsula consists of Nazi Minister on Tractorcy 1 & ity 3 Nazi Minister of Armament Albert Speer tries out a new_Germnn tractoreyele which is designed to make the way easier for Axis troops in the mud of Russia. The Nazis claim the vehicle is a success. Nlaybp they mean it facilitates retreats. The photo was received in the U. S. from a neutral source. about 90,000 square miles with a population of 300,000 natives. The natives proved of great assistance to the Allied forces in the long battie. f The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON . —Lend-Lease Ad- ministrator Ed Stetinius is head- ed for a stormy reception when he testifies before the House Ap- propriations Committee on the new $11,000,000,000 budget for lend- lease aid to our allies. The hearing will be behind closed doors, and Republican com- mitteemen are preparing to fire some hot questions about alleged irregularities in lend-lease opera- tiops, including a charge that we purchased several merchant ships from Canada which were later given to the British. Chairman Emory S. Land of the, Maritime Commission has ad- mitted this at®a closed-door meet- ing, of the House Merchant Marine Committee. Another charge to be fired at Stettinius is that we sent scarce farm implements to Britain while our own farmeérs were minus. The meeting, however, will not be a one-way session. For the Lend- Leasé boss has a surprise of his| own 'instore for the committee. He | plans to present detalls on “neci-g procal” lend-lease—namely services | we! are ‘getting from the British. | i | H : ! THE OTHER SIDE | Wiley B. Rutledge (abbve), form- American public has heard | er Law Dean at the Universtiy of ll ; '::ont n:fls phase, but we have | owa and more recently Associate < considerable free aid from | yyggice of the United States Court e Bflu;.h including ships, shib| ¢ Appeals, was nominated by repeifs, -barrage ‘balloons for oUr| pgent Roosevelt to be Asso- SO ks antl-alroralt, SU%S| ciate Justice of the Supreme thé (war zone, completely builr,| C°t m‘gpped and paid for by the Brit- NlNE HUNDRED GERMANS DIE, The British also have turned over to our forces in England, without | cost, a huge air depot and an ad- jacent airdrome with an operating | personnel of 5,000 workers paid by the British government. In addition, Great Britain has built several large cantonments, | storage buildings and other tacm-; ties for our troops—all without cost to Uncle Sam. t NOTE: The President once comi- | pared lend-lease to supplying a; hose to put out a fire in your| neighbor’s house. If the fire is ex- | tinguished, but the hose is' de- Diplomatic Sources in Stockholm Get Dope as to Casualties STOCKHOLM, Jan. 23.—Infor- |mation reaching diplomatic sourc- stroyed, it is still a good investment o5 here said it is estimated the because you prevent your OoWnl|Royal Air Forces have killed near- home from burning down. !ly 900 Germans in bombing raids 5 e 5 lon Berlin. OFFICIALS SAVE GAS , Officially the Germans have ad- Some few Washington bigwigs \mitted that only 110 persons were are careless about gasoline ration- killed by bombs. This is the high- b R e |est score the German capital (Continyed on Page y;;;; g--lngen out since the war began. BERLIN RAIDS Wing Commander Tells Of Heroism in Alaska By Navy Flyipq Force NOMINEE SAN DIEGO, Calif,, Jan. 28—An outfit of U. S. Navy fliers, making missions in which every flight was described by their wing commander as “one the crew should not have returned from,” has made an excel- lent record in the Alaska battle area. Announce Capture of Salsk . -Advance fo Ten ‘ Miles of Rostov (By Associated Press) The Red Armies of Russia | hailed fresh triumphs all along | the 1200-mile front today. In swift succession, the Russians reported the capture of the rail hub and |German air base of Salsk, 100 | miles southeast of Moscow, the storming ‘to within 10 miles of | Rostov, and the near capture of | the great Donets Basin industrial | |town of Vorshilovgrad. | The Soviets reported that after !a 10-mile advance they had cap- |tured nine more towns southwest |of Vepikne Wuki. ; On the Moscow front, the fall of Salsk rubbed out the main base |for the Nazis' plane ferrying serv- ice to supply the remnants of the 22 German divisions trapped be- {fore Stalingrad. .o | NAVYPLANE, 19 ABOARD, IS MISSING | | ;Huge Craft -Di;ppeared in | Fog Out of San | Francisco ; SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23—The | Its four motors, each ge ting Cargo Plan 000 horsepower, roaring a symphony of power, Lockheed’s triple-tailed, shark-bodied “Constellation,” described as the “biggest, swiftest and most powerful land-based American cargo transport plane ever built,” warmed its motors at Burbank, Calif., prior to its first flight. Lockheed said the' plane could fly a light tank and its complement of troops across an ocean. Byrnes Going fo Aid President i (Second of Two Articles on the New Congress) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—A little 5(:\'er ten years ago, the GOVernor nieme Court to take over the job of the state of New York had to |deal with a recalcitrant legislature. yjon The Governor was Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the interim, no President has ever had less trouble with his Con- p gress. F. D. R. has had trouble,' mew men are so well thought of “Every man knew this, yet none cearch by sea and air for signs of | certainly, and on occasion, he had on the Hill” as Jimmy g,yn%_; ToBeMade on Congress Farm Parify | Fight Begins In Congress w';l branch, but not often. f‘Agri(u"ura| Committee o0 iere is no greater proof of the| fect that the President realizes | House Calls for Re- vision Measure what he will be up against than| n Requesis that he recalled James F. Byrnes| from his life-time post on the Su-| of Director of Economic Stabiliza-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — A bill lcalling for upward revisition of the betting that|farm parity price levels, to include 'the cost of farm labor, has been |approved unanimously by the House Those who know are Byrnes' chief job for some time to come will be that of pouring oil on the troubled Congressional waters, Agriculture Committee This opens the farm bloc drive the Administration successfully op- wavered,” said Capt. Leslie Gehres |a naval transport plane with 19|pcon beaten down by the legisla- Heis one of the boys. And he under- Posed last year. of Coronado, California, command- er of Patrol Wing 420. Five officers of the Wing were awarded decorations by the Presi- dent. Gehres mentioned the tenacity and bravery of Lieut. Lucius Camp- bell of Seattle as typical of the per- sonnel of the Wing. Typical Case Campbell, flying in a snowstorm over the bleak Alaskan waters, con- tacted a heavy enemy fleet con- centration. “He maintained con- tact until his ship was riddled with Jap bullets and forced down at sea and he received the Navv Cross for this action,” Gehres related. Gehres' command maintained a constant patrol over thousands of {miles of the cold Alaskan waters, returning to bases knee-deep in mud only long enough to refuel and rearm. The American fliers constantly were confronting adverse weather conditions, but kept an accurate tab on the Jap positions and| strength. The fliers used Catalinas, Gehres |said, bombing a Jap invasion force at Kiska for three days through |sheets of anti-aircraft fire. | Also included in the Wing's list of destruction are many Jap air- craft, a radio station, ammunition dump, and 65,000 tons of shipping damaged, including direct hits on a large transport, a destroyer and |three cruisers. In addition, many near misses were scored. Many Hardships Members of the Wing were in !Alaska only a few days before the Japs attacked. Ground plane crews stood long watches, Gehres said, re- lieved only by the frigid, black beauty of the aurora borealis. “The men worked until they drop- ped from exhaustion,” he said. “The entire crew of one seaplane tender hours to service and refuel Cata- linas. “Often the men waded up to their waists in icy water to steer the big (the House and President of the “!th boats, and the fliers many times fought and patrolled until their fuel wes pone, knowing they would be forced down at s jenemy.” :ubrlax‘d which vanished in the fog| during a storm near here on a | tlight to Honolulu is being pushed | | today. | The four-engined seaplane car-i iried a crew of nine and 10 naval| |officers as passengers. It already | |was more than 24 hours overdue| Iwhen the Navy announced yester- | day that it was missing. | | There has been no radio con- tact with the plane since it circled in the vicinity of San Francisco | Thursday morning, a Navy state- ment said. | ~ RAIDED BY | i | " RAFAGAIN LONDON, Jan. 23 — Royal Air Force bombers roared ovér Lhei channel again today to smash at| !Hmer's great war foundries in the |German Ruhr region, striking for the second time in 24 hours, the 13th time ths month. SET OPENING 'HOURS FOR BOTHHOUSES | Secretary of Alaska E. L. Bartlett | said today that the House will be| |called to order at 2 o'clock Monday © once labored without rest for 36 afternoon, and the Senate at 3 MC°! RUHR AREA - yet tion from the south, the Governor's USO Dance - On Tonight, Union Hall e g stands what they with the folks back home. If any one can smooth out the | | wrinkles that have been piling up| for the last ten years and finally| are up against | reached an apex in election in No-/ |vember of a near-Republican | |House and a Senate with a sadly| depleted Democratic majority, it 'probably is Jimmy Byrnes. | That, however, is just part of! the picture. For ten years, the| RAPE (ASE Prosident has been dealing with| Congress through his lieutenants.| The second formzl dance spon- House and Senate Majority Lead- . B ored by USO hostesses is to be ers, respectively, John W McCor-:Formef RCAF Hlef Adml's seld tenight in the Union Hall in- mack and Alben Barkley: Speaker| . . d of in &he Elks Ballroom as m Reyburn and Vice President ngh' CIUb Gll’| wen' evicusly planned, it is announced llace have been the only fre-| by Director Sid CoWwgill today. quent visitors at the White House.| fo His Apartments Beginning at 9 p. m., the Duck Scme Democratic stalwarts have | Cree band will provide sweet never been inside the White House| LOS ANGELES, Calif. Jan. 23— rhythm for dancing feet, with Lieut. cxcept at those pre-war formal |Capt. Owen C. Jones, former Royal Lagle directing. Chaperones for the gala even- receptions. On the Republican side, Canadian Air Force Squadron Lead- the President has oc casionally | cr, admitted in Errol Flynn's trial e Warms Up for Flighi_ | 00 Japs Blasted From New Guinea Area ce RED ARMIES GiantNew BRITISH 8TH ARMY ENTERS FALLEN CITY |Troops Move Into Former Axis Metropolis | Through Shambles (By Associated Press) 3 Fire-blackened Tripoll, pride of Mussolini’s vanquished African Em- pire fell today before the assault of the British troops. At 5 a. m. today the vanguards of the triumphant British Eighth Army pursued Rom- mel's columns retreating in Tunisia and “our forward troops entered Tripoli early this morning” the British Headquarters communique says. . | This was coincident with British | Prime Minister Winston Churchill's 11940 pledge that the Fascist Empire in Africa, will be torn into “tatters |and shreds.” | Shambles greeted the entering | forces into Tripoll everywhere. Some | fires were still raging and the har- |bor s filled with sunken ships, |blasted down by American Flying | Fortresses. | The Itallan communique admit- !ted that the Axis troops have levacuated Tripoli after “bitter fight- i | | Berlin has likewise conceded the loss of the Libyan capital. Part of Rommel’s forces, esti- 'mated at aproximately 63,000 sol- diers, have already fled across the Libyan frontier and are reported to have contacted Gen. Jurden's arm- ies behind the Mareth line, 65 miles inside Tunisia. The dispatches received said the British troops storming Tripoli at dawn today found the city, the once stronghold of the Barbary pirates, in flames. Axis demolition squads bad added havoe to that wrought by the Allied bombs and shells. The entry into Triopli climaxed a 1,300-mile sweep across the desert and left the Axis bottled up on a 300-mile coast strip. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull, when told | of the great British victory, said the fall of Tripoli constituted one of the most overwhelming outstanding and important victories of the war and the people of the United States |rejoice at the achievements of the | British Eighth Army. ROME ADMITS DEFEAT IN NO. AFRICA LONDON, Jan. 23.—A Rome ra- dio dispatch picked up here stated “The great struggle which Italy ing will be Mrs. C. E. Rice, Mrs. called in Minority Leaders Charles cn statutory rape charges, that he g v 4 has been waging for 23 months in Harry Stonehouse, Mrs. William By- L. McNary and Joseph Martin, but ' cccompanied Peggy Larue Satwr-‘mflh Africa is coming to an end.” ington. Mrs. Fred Geeslin will con- tinue her competent supervision of refreshments. All GSO girls are urged to attend and are reminded to wear their pins or carry their membership cards with them. WAR MANPOWER OFFICIAL NOT HERE FOR MEET Due to the fact that William G Hopkins, Regional Director of the 12th Manpower Region, has not been able to get transporta- announced today that the scheduled for today will not be held any earlier than o'clock. | now After Bartlett calls the Legislators Monday- £ War Manpower officials, along to order, a Temporary Speaker of Senate will take over and the heads of the two houses will be elected. | Chaplains of the opening sessions but unwilling |will be the Rev. Walter Soboleff in ! has to break off contact with the the House, and the Rev. W. G. Le- Ar 'Vasseur in the Senate. ! representatives of labor and ndustry will assemble in the Gold Room of the Baranof as soon as Hopi arrives to talk over plans ing up a War Manpower 1+ in Alaska and for naming a representative, local few others. lee to various places even a mor- It’s almost a cinch that Congres- tuary where he said Peggy played |sicnal leaders from now on will get'tide and seek with the corpses. mere hearings and confidential The dapper flier said he was 42 sessions at 1600 Pennsylvania nd told on defense cross-examin- |aton, that Peggy, 16, had been a in|frequent visitor to his Hollywogd | Congress has tasted \"getting” Leon Henderson. blood Other apartment, alone sometimes, in the! Mourning the loss of Tripoli, the |dispatch further admitted enormous losses in the desert campaign and attributed the Axis retreat to Brit- ish superiority of men and equip- ment. “To saerifice so much territory is painful when it has been de- |New Dealers and bureaucrats coulc follow, even to the extent of knock- ing out some cabinet members who have been under Congressional fire. A good many executive depart- ment heads, New Deal brass hats have considered Congress fair game. It's not likely that Congres will be forgetting or forgiving now Cne thing more is pretty cer ain. There will be no more of hose ultimatums ordering Con- T to pass some legislation by such date or else. It’s apparent that ultimatums will get only an -right-it’s-or-else” answer. S urn to the lessons he learned 10 tate. And it may make for—on the urface al least—a much friendlier elationship between - the White House and “ the Hill” than ever has existed in the years when the ad- | ministration was in the saddle i evening. S8he is a night club enter- tainer and complaining witness of fended with so much valor and two or three counts against Flynn, | With the loss of so much blood, Capt. Jones admitted also that but in war loss of territory is not he had accompanied the girl to the end of the maneuver,” the ra- night clubs, vacation spots, restau- rants and out-of-town trips, how- ever, he said, they were always ac- companied by the girl's mother, ister or someone else. >-o 0DD NAMES ATLANTA, Ga. The State vide unusual names for anybody names as listed in its records: Fuller Booze, Wash Saturday, Be Careful McGee, Georgia Possum, Asia MiInor and Extra White R BUY DEFENME BONDS SALVAGING OF PLANE DELAYED BY WEATHER | Salvage work for the Woodley Airways plane which crashed in In other words, the President will Health Department here can pro- Gastineau Channel last Monday was unable to be carried out this rs ago in dealing with an anti- who wants to write a novel. Its vi- morning due to local weather con- Rcosevelt législature in New York tal statistics division reports these ditions, according to officials in charge of the operations. Efforts to raise the plane will be inaugurated by the salvage ship and divers as soon as is possible. The 'salvage ship and divers arrived in |Juneau yesterday, —__——————-fl_