The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9250. — ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943 MEMBI ‘R _ASSOC lATl ‘D PRESS PRICE TFN CENTS ALLIES BLAST JAP SHIPS,RABAULHARBOR British Chase Rommel Far West Of Tripoli MONTGOMERY Gloomy Broadcast Is Made by Berlin; Will Shorten Line in Russia IS STILL SHORT OF TUNISIA Fighting Frm Have Now| Joined Allies in Occupation (By Associated Press) Pressing relentlessly westward from Tripoli in pursuit of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s for the vanguard of the British Ei Army has occupied the coastal town of Zauia, 30 west of Tripoli. ‘The communique announcing this | occupation emphasized that advanced elements of Montgomery's | army still are 60 miles from the Tunisian frontier where the Ger-! mans are undergoing fierce aermlf harrassment. » At the same time. the Fighting French announced trimchantly | that Brig. Gen. LeClerc’s army has | reached Tripoli where it has joined the British after a 1,500- hth | small miles | (Continued on Page Five) | The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Manpow e r Boss Paul McNutt has been ses- sioning with the Truman Commit- regarding certain problems which touch the lives of every- one. They include: size of the Army, where we will get labor for farms, and whether the Army shall be used in mines and in-| dustry. | Senators on the Committee were ! impressed both with the gravity of | the problems McNutt placed be-| fore them, and his general vxews‘ regarding them. McNutt revealed that Undersec- retary of War Patterson had been{ talking to him about a totalarmed force of 11,000,000 to 15,000,000 men. This included not merely the | Army, but the Navy, the Coast | Guard and the Marine Corps — | everything except the Merchant Marine. However, McNutt pointed out| that shipping facilities and sub- marine warfare seriously limlted‘ the number of troops which could-“ be sent abroad and supplied. The | figure he mentioned must remaln, a military secret, but he indicated | that with Hitler's U-boats working | overtime around North Africa, it| was going to be difficult to main- | tain a very large army in North| Africa. ¢ | In addition to North Africa, he pointed to the problem of supply- ing other war fronts in the Pa- cific, together with Russia and| England. | As a result, McNutt doubted the feasibility of a world’s record army now. He was all for giving the mil- itary and navy what they wanted so long as it could be transported | to the combat zones, but he op- posed a huge army which would (@l supply problem. Helpful also gryg can be obtained from wild| eat its head off at home, especial- | ly in view of the fact that morale| deteriorates when an army is kept, idle. \ At one time, McNutt said, a large‘ army at home was considered nec- essary to protect the United' States. But now military experts felt this danger greatly lessentd, though a certain number of re-‘ serves must be trained. | | ARMY WILL HARVEST CROPB\ McNutt was asked a great many | questions about farm labor, es- pecially by Senator Truman of | Missouri. He replied that the Army had been unwilling to let men go home on furlough to help with the crops because this hurt morale.| However, he said the Army wa.s‘ working on a plan to send Army| units into farm areas, in battal- " (Continued on Page Four) ——1 lis ! forerunner |to improve the strategical situation (By Associated Press) loss of a “bridgehead at is officially acknowledg- The Voronezh"” led by the German High Command in a Berlin radio broadcast and it indicated that this is but the of major withdrawals of Hitler's buffeted armies. A military correspondent of DNB . quoted a broadcast recorded in Lon- don by Reuters saying the “Ger- man High Command plans to short- en the whale Russian front to build |up a new main defense line.” The broadcast from Berlin con- the |~ “The Woman” on Capitol Hill IN One of the many new Republicans the 78th congress, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, well-known playwright and author of “The Women,” undergoes plenty of interviewing by the press and the photogmphers in her Washington office. BIGDRIVE TOVICTORY THIS YEAR Supreme Cohficil May Is-| sue Important State- ment Shortly LONDON, Jan. 26—An agreement | tined the tragic account of rem- nants of 22 Axis divisions encircled at the approaches to Stalingrad and this passage is “in a heroic self- sacrificial fight against overwhelm- ing superiority.” The broadcast then goes on to state how the Germans at Stalin- |grad have “attached to the im- upon some formula by the Supreme mortal glory of its colors, units Council to direct and unify the of the Rumanian 20th infantry Di- United Nations drive to victory this sion that are fighting shoulder tosh Y¢ar 18 reported in foreign diplo- | matic circles. | don that are fighting shouder to Thjs attained only silence from |shoulder with their German com- the Allied spokesman but it is and sharing fully in this glory.” known conferences have been under way and an extremely important announcement is expected to be issued soon | Speculation is that a General Marshal might be appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces in the European threatre and this statement is generally express- ed in the British newspapers. e —— ATTACKIS PLANSAYS PRESIDENT Delivers Mésgége toU.S. Troops in Ireland for Year | BELFAST, Ireland, Jan. 26. — A | message from President Roosevelt | was read here at ceremonies com- memorating the first anniversary | of the landing of troops in North- | ern Ireland, saying, “from now cu' we think of attack—determined, | unrelenting, smashing * attack.” | The message was delivered at a | | ceremony. in the city hall by Maj. | |Gen. Russell Hartle, temporary | |commander of the forces in the| European theater of war in thvl absence of Eisenhower who is busy | in North Africa. “A year ago,” said the Presi-| rades on Capitol Hill for the opening of Warfime Shorfage of Importani Reporfed as Eased Up By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—A war-| time shortage of important drugs, which a year ago loomed as an alarming handicap in the treat- ment of disease, considerably by increased produc- tion of medicinal plants in this country. A quickly-expanded acreage of | plants which provide such essen- tial drugs as belladonna, digitalis and henbane has relieved a criti- have been synthetics, among these being synthetic camphor and ata- |brine, a limited substitute for qui- nine. Still pressing, however is our need for quinine, which was im- ported largely from the Nether- lands East Indies and is now re- quired in large amounts for our armed forces in tropical and semi- tropical regions. Prior to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, we obtained most of our botanical drugs from abroad, including even those plants that could be grown in this country. plants could be produced more Mainly this was because these cheaply with low-cost hand labor in foreign countries. Considering the large amount of drugs consumed in this country, the acreage reguired to provide ample supplies of those medicinal plants which can be grown in the . has been eased' dent, “the first great convoy of | American troops to cross the At- /lantic in this war landed in Nor-| !thern Ireland. They came from a buttress of grim defense to a be- | Dr !sieged fortress of freedom. 1 ugs ow | “Things have changed greatlyin hese past 12 months. We no longer !think of defense. That is past From now and henceforth we think |of attack. | “Our troops—those in the Unit- |U. 8. A is aslomshmsly small. Dr.leq Kingdom, China and other do- | |D. M. Crooks of the U. 8. Bureau minjons of our Allies—are chafed | of Plant Industry says probably with inaction. not more than a total of 3500 “They will get action. The road | acres is required. {to Berlin is a long and hard one, | Take digitalis, which is indis- put it is very sure.” pensable as a heart medicine. Only | ORISR e LM RO | 75 acres in a favorable location is required to furnish the quantity No BREAD lINE | of the drug usually imported an- o IHOS nually. Normally, our major sup- plies of digitalis are obtained from Germany, Belgium, France and Ttaly. Fairly large supplies of the CHICAGO, Ill. Jan. 26 — Robert Patterson, Under Secretary of War, promised in a speech here today that the Army will “do its best to serving stocks of quinine, which is S¢¢ that no man is mustered out of the military ranks to the bread [pamculany valuable in the treat- > line. {ment of malaria. The Army and Patte: p the Navy have priorffy on quinine. atterson proposed the Selective ') Service go in reverse and locate | The drug can be obtained by civil- * |ians only on prescription for use jobs (o_r released men who return in malaria. Quinine comes from the !0 ¢ivilian life and do this with as bark of the cinchona tree, which has been highly developed in the Netherlands East Indies. Steps are being taken to develop a quinine industry in the Andes region of South America, where the trees are native. Another im- portant medicinal plant which is being considered for production in Latin-America is nux vomica,! which gives us strychnine. We are still gemng adequate sup—l (Continued ‘on Page Plve) plamts in the Pacific northwest.; Small farms in New England have had success with the crop. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam i5 con- sible. k e COWLING RETURNS F Edward John Cowling, in Se- attle fof the past two weeks on business, returned last night to the Capitol City and expressed re- lief at being back home. - VAN MAVERN BACK A. Van Mavern, local broker,re- turned last night from a trip to lscucheast Alaska towns. ) hine Tremel, Enrolling Clerk; Wil- little disruption to economy as pos- 7 Yanks Examine Nazi Plane Captured in Africa U.S. Army officers examine a Heinkel HM3 bomber cap German er cannon poking through the nose of the ¢ 1 by Allied troops in North Africa. tion.accompa Note the al U. 8. Army ying this offi Signal Corps photo did not reveal how the plane was captured, nor the location. Camoulla Direct hits from U. which was completely Fali ry Vb Army bombers set afire this amouflaged along its sides ¢ Jap transport and even up its mast by palm trees as it tried to sneak through the islund-studded waters of Bismarck Archipelago near New Britam, (harge Made fhat "War And Navy Are Loafers” in Produdmi‘i; Probe li Officers elected by the Senate erday afterncon, in addition to ecident O. D. Cochran and Se Vinson, story rv Elizabeth Clements were Baltimore Olga Steele, Assistant Secretary; ., ., said: iet Tucker, Engrossing Clerk;| .jon and wi ia Braun, Watchman; Doro- Jose- Applegate, Doorkeeper; MacKenzie, Messenger, and ul Urick, Sergeant-at-Arms. The W. G. LeVasseur was elected, (. . rmanent Chaplain. of MARRIAGE LICENSE Charles H. Mock, Fairbanks en-! cer, and Leta 8. Williams, Ju- . g4 walitress, have filed applica- 1 with Commissioner Felix office for a marriage li- > and plan to be married soon. uiry to give 0 prove the cor nent. We should also h \rmy and Navy officials.” I'he blunt talk of Jeffers made ct | WASHINGTON, Jan OFFICERS NAMED | tigation of charge ‘ & { Jeflers that the “Army [} are loafers” and IN uppER Hohsf war production, has by the House of interfering been with Naval Committec i 8 criewkpaper { War Information - IWT s all OWI s inform en gh Je h a supposed speeches tion on - the request of Representative rman. Vinson read to the Commitie of yesterday is a serious ac would have an in- 'S an OppopLunity of Jeffer BUY DEFENSE BONDS u 1 t Carl in ech also drew from the Office reprimand to approve public seman said no ad- bably FORTRESSES MAKE RAID AT MIDNIGHT ‘Tweniy Thousand Tons of Shipping Sent Down in Solomons Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan, 26—A strong Flylng Fortress force blasted Ra- for (wo hours around mid- hit one ship that was pro- carrying muniticns, and d a hole in the sides of an- er ship, The first ship explod- fter hit, The bombers went in low uide inter antiairerait fire wwarchlights playing on the air. I'ne bombers report that at least 0,000 tons were sunk In the Ra- ht, e with BL. NG WASHINGTON and lant action in the weekend for By Jan A ALR ricans we NS aver terri into ant imp: ‘tory gains and inflicted heavy dam ‘O, ON 1S SOVIET CRY; ‘ROUTNALZIS' Statin Himself Issues Order of Day to All of Rus- sian Forces MOSCOW, Jan. On," is the order the Soviet forces. The order is signed by Stalin, who for the first time signed the order as Supreme Commander-In- Chief of the Red Army and all fighting forces of the Soviet Un- ion The fighting forces today pusbed their battle lines ahead in the Ukraine and the Caucasus and bat- tled the growing German rests- tance M the lower Don as the Soviets approached Rostov. “Forward for the routing of the German invaders and their expul- sion over the boundaries of Our Motherland” is the Premler’s rai- lying cry and that of all of Russia. Urging “On of the day to DAVIS IS SPEAKER OF HOUSE : Kehoe With&réWsName as : Candidate-Help Is Selected ' Representative J D Jur was elected ¥ [2} House this .mornin pollin nin votes to seven over Rep | R of Fairbanks after Rep. Joseph W Kehoe withdrew his name as a candidate. Speaker Davis, now serving fourth session in the wield the gavel over an all-Demo- cratic body, but one which is di- vided along other than party lines. Rep. Harvey J. Smith of An- chorage asked for a secret ballot for the contest for Speak but later withdrew the motion and an open vote was cast. How They Voted Voting for Davis were Repres: tatives Andrew GCundersen. R Hardcastle, Frank Whuley Wal Porter, Tol lace be ¥ 1L (Continued on Pag his on the enemy Navy communigue reiterated |tne capture of the village of Ko- |kumbona and the seizure of stores Iynd ammunition -seven miles West of the Allied airfleld on Guadal- canal Island. A large destroyer and a Jap car- 20 ship were bombed near Shoft- land Island, and munition and fuel dumps were wi) out on Kilom- bangara Island, 190 miles north- west of Guadalcanal by air. This activity was the greatest to date in the area. BUDGET 1S SUBMITTED T0 SOLONS But Legislzfi(;r; Must Fig- ure Out How fo Bal- ance If The Territorial Board of Budget, in its report to the Sixteenth Ter- ritorial Legislature today, recom- " mends a total of $4384,909.12 for vxpendnures during the next two | vears, dumping into the legislators’ !laps a most perplexing problem. The Board — Governor Ermest Gruening, Treasurer Oscar G. Ol- son, and Auditor Frank A. Boyle— points out in the report that esti- mated receipts for the next two vears amount to only $3,001,307.21. \nd not even that extra 21 cents i1 hide the fact that the estimat- now $1,383,691.08 .lg v.he estimated bills. lecislators approve the reccmmended, they'll e out ways and means more money. the same time, the new mounts to more than a I illion dollars less than the f the as s dur I ure the next 60 days, or theyll do ling. Or it may be 5 come {rom (h IL'nd» as roads, eagles and hair rious small items. it en in mainly for iding salary increases for as- t other help. One war (g ¢, an appropriation for the \laska Territorial Guard, makes its appearance, Iy deficiency appropria- ted are $1,500 for lhe ions repor Continued on Page 1wo)