The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1943 ————————== __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——— VOL. LX., NO. 9249. 16TH TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE OP ENS Americans Slash Out Anew In Solomons Area TAKESEVEN Why Natis See Red POSITIONS | FROM JAPS Kill 201 Nippons on Guad- | alcanal - Raid Nip- pon Outpost WASHINGTON, "Jan. 25. — The American forces, on a general of- fensive in the Solomons, are re- | ported by the Navy to have won | seven important positions from the | enemy on Guadalcanal Island, | killed 201 Jap soldiers and cap- | tured 40, | The Americans have virtually | wiped out an enemy island base | 196 miles northwest of Guadal- canal by sea and air attack. The | places captured, said the commui- | nique, are six important elevanons: west of Henderson Field on Gua- | dalcanal and the coastal village of | Kokumbona where quantities of stores and equipment were seized. mernrae Allied Forces Eat and ~ Sleep (2) in Mud During Big Atfack on Sanananda the previously-held Point Cruz front, apparently pushing the at- tack in an effort to bottle up and ! eventually wipe out the dwindling ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Private Peter Passini, of Farm- AUSTRALIA, Jan. 25 — The folks ington, Illinois, asked how he spent back home do not know and would | the first night under the mud and |not believe the conditions under rain conditions, said: Merry - Go-Roun which the main attack on Sanan-| “Well, we were afraid for awhile By DREW PEARSON |anda started. {we were going to be attacked by (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | The American and Australian Sol- | jap subs, but I guess they could s |diers, of the first advance camped through the : lin a sea of mud after a night and Dot mike /thely 3 WASHINGTON. — Cordell Hull, gay long rain which was about 10 mud. We ate and slept, if you did who, as an ex-Congressman, de-|inches during 24 hours. sleep, standing up.” tests lobbyists, especially sugar 2 lobbyists, is waging a silent but po- | tent feud against the big sugar! New Senalor wa“Is 'o 14 r e "Why-Man' Not Usua [ 4 [ATH [] es-Man, nisNicxname r interests of Cuba. | /double duty of electioneering and Actually, Cuba itself has very| little to do with it. It is the big wrestling with all the legislative problems this war has raised. Wall Street sugar companies dom- | inated by the Chase National Bank | and the National City Bank which Dr. George W. Calver, congres- sional physican, attributes the new | health record to a greater con- have aroused Secretary Hull's Ten- | | sciousness of the need for physical nessee ire. He is out to break their strangle hold on our island neigh- fitness. Scores of congressmen have | beaten the strain of overwork with bor. Behind the feud is the fact that| | physical checkups and strict adher- ence to proper exercise and diets. last year Jesse Jones'‘Defense Sup- | By JACK STINNETT plies, Inc., purchased the entire} WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—In an Cuban sugar crop at a very high interview with an Associated Press| | - -o - DOWN, GOOD RATE Since November the aroused Red armies have crawled from their refuge and battered the invading Nazis, achieving more spectacular success thus far than they did in the whole of last winter. This map shows the direction in which the Soviets are now lashing at the enemy. (Continued on Page Five) The Washington way price, and now we find ourselves writer in Detroit, Homer Ferguson, with 1,600,000 tons of sugar left the new junior Republican senator in Cuba, plus 65,000,000 gallons oforom Michigan, tagged himself with invert syrup, plus 70,000,000 gal- & nickname which, if he lives up to lons of blackstrap molasses, 1it, will stick with him as long as he We needed the syrup and mol- sezves. i R * “ asses for making alcohol. Also we]‘wB;? to“{,:’:’-‘:f:;’.‘;nanh'enotfl;d:yesf qi;:m:ol.a nsg“““r"er ::":;‘:eg“;::fl:: man.’” Friends and colleagues al- and shipping crisis _which now‘reudy are referring to him as Sen. - | “Why-Man” Ferguson and those makes it almost impossible 0wy, know the Judge and his re- move the above balance out of putation as the one-man grand| Cuba. ,{Jury that busted many Detroit rack- None of this was Jesse Jones' cts wide open, will give odds no| fault, except possibly the high price end that he lives up to his new | —which gave the big sugar com- handle. panies and their New York bank-, | ers a profit of $60,000,000 to 530-"Rep. Will Rogers, Jr., is the only 000,000. man in the new Congress who will |walk the halls of the Capitol in the shadow of his daddy’s statue. In wounded seven times on November SUGAR GOES TO WASTE However, Cuba now wants us cne of the main floor corridors that }‘::.:::é’ Mt’ifiat" hihx;evj’s:: s ;;da ;z:;, % ity £hé current. sugar grop, and |hcuses the overflow from the Hall |wneties cn trom 15000 5o 4000 we don’t want it. We already have |of Statuary is a life-size bronze|,¢ tne time he left and he believed 1,600,000 tons in Cuba which we|of the gum-chewing comedian. | the rest could be wiped out “; 10 can't move, plus syrup and molass-, It should be a daily reminder to|days, many of them stragglers in es; so there is no reason in the young Will that although his Dad|the vicinity of Henderson Field. world for buying more. Inever served in Congress, he pro-|Puller also said the heaviest and Thé Cuban Government, how- | bably was quoted more frequently| fastest bombers were now being ever, points out that it cannot sell|there than any man in his time. used around Guadalcanal but there its sugar unless it sells to us; and| is no rest for the men, always on the with our market gone, the island| Congress has just dealt the old alert the entire 24 hours and the will be bankrupt. and revolution. The State Department is sympa- In the 715 days of the 77th Con- thetic to the Cuban viewpoint and | 8ress, the longest on record. 14 has suggested that Cuba diversify members of the House and five, its crops, planting peanuts wmchifiennwrs died, but only three of | are badly needed here, plus mm""hose congressmen and no senator crops for making rope, no longer has died since the United States obtainable from the Philippines. (ccared war. the new maternity class are still The State Department also, has That record hasn't been equalled jeing taken and cannot begin until offered a loan to improve’ the In any vear since 1914. It is all ton haye registered. Phone 218 or |work and war tension are killing. sheer exhaustion. e NEW MATERNITY CLASS REGISTRATIONS ARE TAKEN Stephenie Bogdon, Public Health Nurse, reports that registrations for Ceawal highway rufning the the more remarkgble because 1942 .q) in’person just before 5 p. m. length of the island. was not bnly the second year of pf__.".._{ ey However, the Cuban Government the longest continuous session of Motor vehicles are the only means S 25 |Ccnzress but also was election year of transportation for an estimated _ (Continued on Page Four) w hen many members had to do the 18,000,000 non-farm rural workers. RED ARMY ~ SWEEPING FORWARD Smash Thr;u—gh German ' Resistance in Caucasus | ~Now on to Rostov | MOSCOW, Jan. 25—The Red| |Army, north of the Caucasus, has1 |smashed through the German re< sistance to the rolling plains in Rostov Province and have captured the railroad city of Peschanokop- skoye and threatened the key Ger- man stronghold at Rostov 95 miles northwest with the enemy's soft- est flank. i The Russians claim this advance | is important and it is expected | that the drive will result in the! destruction of all German forces south of Rostov. Success of the drive and killing or capture of the Germans may be reported within a few hours. A special Russian communique | announced late today the capture of Starobelsk, 125 miles southeast of Kharkov. 70,000 NAZIS CAUGHT LONDON, Jan. 25.—A Reuters dispatch says nearly 3,000 more Germans have been captured in the Kamenka-Rossoch sector below | Voronezh during the past 24 hours, making a total of some 70,000 Ger- man prisoners taken in the past 11 days. | | ¥R | | Preparing Germans for Questioning Nazis in Tunisia Major William Yarborough (right) of Seattle, Wash, questions two German prisoners captured during the fighting in Tunisia. One prisoner is smiling. Major Yarborough is French liaison officer with the forces. Amer " Bad Hews of Disastrous STOCKHOLM, Jan. 25.—Appar- ULTIMATE DEFEAT OF JAPS SEEN MacArthur Sa_ys New Form of War Tested on New Guinea . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 25—Gen. Doug- las McArthur, Allied Commander of the Southwest Pacific, said today in his regular communique that his forces are being hard fought, but are winning the battle for Papua and a “new form of campaign has been tested which points the ws for the ultimate defeat of the |enemy in the Pacific. This new method of warfare iMacArthur said, primarily involves | “continued, calculated application jof airpower.” ! Remarking particularly on the ‘nartheaslern New Guinea fighting, 1 he said the Allied air arm was found |effective and important not only |as an offensive and a defensive 5weapon, but as an instrument of WASHINGTON, Jan. 256 — Lieut. troop transport and supply and|Oregon, office of the National Re: Col. Lewis Puller, veteran marine, close coordination between the air|sources Planning Board, and Char! and land units to permit “swift 8 in the assault which drove the massive strokes” against the ememy Mines and Resources at Ottawa, Japs from the eastern end of Guad- to preclude tne necessity for “dila-|have been appointed to organize and tory and costly island advance.” Pefersburg Takes Adion, Liquor Law; Lops One Hour Off | PETERSBURG, Alaska, Jan. 25—/ will face riots|one-two to the theory that hard|men only drop and take a rest from The city council, at a special ses- “umed lost, the Coast Guard Cutter |sion last Saturday, made the liquor 'store hours from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m and the cocktail bars from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m., lopping one hour from the hours of the cocktail bars as |requested by the Alaska War Coun- cil at the instigation of Maj. Gen Simon B. Buckner, Jr., Command- er of Alaska Defense. —— - The first general conference of governors of the United States was held at the White House in 1908 when Theodore Roosevelt was Presi- ently preparing the Germans for news of a disastrous defeat on the eastern front, the Berlin newspaper B en Zeitung and Voelkkischer Becbachter recalled today the con ditions of 1918, “when the weaknes: of the Germans on the home front forced mans to capitulate.” Eieht ‘The ne al rifices at Stalingrad have “obliged all people to stand up under all dif ficulties, that a lost war is a lost future and for the first time ORGANIZE FORNORTH iJoint U. S.-Eafladian Cem- mittee fo Study’ fo Trap Rommel-U.S. Forces in Fight NDON ‘luding T ers and fight are today and hawe bor striking pushed her € east mn Allies 1o y 1 b certain ng ape on the e ing of Karl Meg- " spaper, according to ‘U;3£;L';" 4 : for Territory advices received irom Berlo. .. e Ing. oteas Viaknassy, | WASHINGTON A joint ML | Bconemic Committee of the United p Bigd | States and Canada has announced Mh les [rom the i the ciremmstances suj ested t BRITISH 8TH ARMY HITTING . Defeal: Loss Is Admitied 2 WAYS NOW Press Fast, West of Tripoli = and Rommel's WAy the Gulf anc COCHRANIS "~ PRESIDENT ~ OF SENATE House Called fo Order at 2 0'Clock - Senators at3P. M. The Sixteenth Territorial Legis- lnture convened in Juneau this afternoon with Secretary of Aluska !calling the House to order at 2 c'clock, and the Senate at 3 o'- clock. All legislators were here ex- |cept Rep. R. E. Hardcastle who was expected this evening from iLetchikan, Senator Hjalmar Nordale of Fair- | banks was named temporary Presi- | dént in the Senate, after which | Senator O. D, Cochran of Nome | wus elected President. The veter- en legislator from the Second Di- vision is now serving his eighth year in the Senate and is the sen- ior member in term of service, ex- cepting Senator N. R. Walker of Ketchikan who formerly served as President. Cochran began his leg- | islative service in 1921 when he first served in the House Chosen as Secretary for the Sen- ate was Mrs. Pete Clements The Rev. W. G. LeVasseur sexved Chapliin "for #he opénlig &es the Senate. Braun was ant' Secretary, for the upper Senate Commitiees Standing Committees for Ih Senate were veed on as follows: Snar Edward D. Coffey, N Walker, Stuart Stangroom, Hjal~ mar Nordale T'axation: Frank Gordon, -A. P Walker, O. D, Cochran, H. H, Mc- Cutcheon Rules: MeCutcheon, N. R. Walk er, Cochran, Nordale Education: N. B. W , Coc an, McCutcheon, Gordon. Fisherles: A: P. Walker, Stan- sroom, Cotfey, Gordon. Judiciary: Nordale, N. R Walker, Cochran, Coffey Mining: Stangroom, A, P, Walk- er, McCuwheon, Gordon. Engrossment: Nordale, A. P. Walker, Stangroom, Coffey. In the House The House was called to order 2 o'clock this afternoon and the sers given the oath. James V. i+ was elected temporary Speak- hat the whole Axis stra- |3 planggo extend wartime: co | tegy of t:le u]nim\x of the armics over J. W. Kehoe by a vote of aticn between the two nations to . lof Rommel and Col, Gen. von Ar- 9 to 6 and Mrs, Stella Young was a P .‘mc-un!e development of 100?000 Alexa“der Fentiv sight be imperilled, quare miles in Alaska, nuxl.lf*m‘ % The: féw | German , planes -now v‘Z“ itish Columbia and the Yl‘ALnn ptiig “Saver " the' battle | Territory and an improvement of | gl nditions for the 100,000 re- of this area immediete objective of the Istudy to be sponsored by the com- !'mittce will be to gather information on the regien as a preliminary to, proposals for developing resourc improving living standards, and in- creasing the population of the vnst‘ |area James C. Rettie of the Portland,| |dropped taunting 00 (o [Americans saying | Americans come out and fight.” | The answer- ‘Bnd raided Maknassay, capturin r 180 prisoners. WeIIKnowflfohmentator Newspaperman, Acfor, Playwright, Passes NEW YOK, Jan. 25 Woollcott, 56, newspaperman of | Playwright, author, reconteur radio commentator, collapsed Sat- {urday night while participating in broadcast over CBS. He was a vet- eran of the first World War. Wooll- *ott suffered an attack of the heart on Friday but seemed all right and was in the studio Saturday 1 eeling fine, he said, and was br asting when suddenly stricke) lied as quickly as he was str While he was recognized as one of the most discerning s of the modern theatre, he alwe. sisted that his most important job as that of being a good newspaper |of the Ousseltie Pont du Fahs and Kairouan. R Dry Kansas | Alexander actor and camesell, Deputy Administrator (direct the study. 1 s LR (OAST GUARD . CUTTER NATSEK POSTED AS LOST WASHINGTON, Jan tives urging the | i ‘ 25 — Pre- | | sold legally in the state, be re- Natcck, which is overdue on the|FePOXter. And he proved ta be OB€ ;g from 32 to one half of one North Atlantic for several weeks, is ::IrY“;:Dz;‘;‘;s"g’;’e‘;“;:“‘z”::d interest- | .o cent, i u);xj(;:d as missing, the N‘ny; Rn_diated Good Hurmlrv | 5 -’:v 2 e 225 ton Natsek went into ser-| He radiated good humor. There RECORD VENISON Ias ORI Ly o s crew. of were few things that he liked better —_— 2 shoull than subtle humor and usually at' AUGUSTA, Me. — A rhe' ship wés commanded by the expense of himself. Once, whei contribution” to the nation’s meat y 1 3 Y he was sailing for Shanghai, New ' upply were the 22,301 deer bagged dsub. Jiy Thomas LeFarge, of the v, <hin news reporters spied him ;) Maine last year, an all-time Ceast. Guard Reserves, grandson | g oning the deck looking & 800d ,.orq. P t the famous artist, John LeFarge. D s There is more unreserved public domain in Alaska than in all the deal like a Chinese ‘junk with its fat sails full “I wish to emphatically deny,” h > BUY DEFENSF BONDS “Why don’t yon the Americans did The official spokesman said this |action gives evidénce that Ameri- |cans are mobilized with some force land are contesting the highlands Valley between TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 25—Dry Kansas may become even more arid. A stock of petitions have been sent to the State House of Representa- alcoholic content of beer, the strongest beverage now hoen for-clerk unanimously. For permanent Speaker of the (Continued on Page Three) ADVISORTO OPACOMING 70 ALASKA ‘ IraN. Fend;r—Now Enroute ' 1o Juneau-Aufo Quota To Go Drier for February Given WATTLE, Jan. 25—Ira N. Fen- w, Associate Economist of the suwean of Labor statistics is herg on his way to Alaska from Wash- ngton. D. C., to confer with Alas- ka’s OPA director. Fender is a graduate in Agri- ural economics of the Univer- cf Wisconsin. In 1929 he was T ed in the retail grocery bus- iness in Chicago for 10 years prior to joining the staff of the Bureau Labor statistics. Frequently Burcan does fact finding jobs “valuable ¢ ¢ne OpPA, It was also announced here that <k2 has been assigned 15 auto- cbiles as its quota for February. m evious high was in 1840 5 totq) of 19,650 new automobiles 1 uore assigned for rationing by the CPA [or the entlre country in Feb- ' compared with a January iquota cf 32,000, dent. States combined. 1 J (Continued on Page Two) E