The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9251. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943 MEMBF R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CE! PRESIDENT, CHURCHILL CONFER IN AFRICA U.S. PLANES lfiovernors(omplele INATTACK ON GERMANY First Big Raid of Americ Army Forces Forecasts Greater Assaulls | Semispheres only fignting the only part of Amer LONDON, Jan. 27—United States' is in direct contact with the enemy. heavy bombers have attacked naval Challenging as is its present situ- installations in Germany. |ation, our Territory will play an ‘This was the United States Armv.pvnn more important and decisive The complete message of Gov Ernest Gruening, delivered this |afternoon to the Alaska Territorial | Legislature at a joint session of AN | the House and Senate, is as fol- ‘lov\: “We meet under unprecedented conditions. Alaska is the | | front, Forces' first attack on the German |part in the days to comc. Alaska, | has a rendezvous with des-| homeland. | too, It is believed that the Germani',iny_ U-boat centers were particularly| “Winning the war is America’s chosen for the attack but the exact | prime task. It overshadows all targets are not immediately dis-|other assignments. And while the closed. responsibility for the %ctual con- The size of the raid is not im- | duct of the war belongs primarily | mediately disclosed this afternoon | to certain agencies of the Federal but the fact that two of the heavi- | Government, duty and responsibil- est carriers and Fortresses and ity likewise attach to every part also Liberators were used indicated |and sub-division of government— the raid was packed by heavy ex- Federal, State or Territorial, and plosive power. |local—to cooperate in the war ef- By striking the first blow at the fort and to contribute their maxi- very heart of the Axis in a bold mum to victory. In this, the first broad daylight challenge, American total war of modern times, every- one is involved. Every item of our s inntional resources, human and ma- | | terial, must be enlisted. (Continued on Page Five) Western ! 4 which | turn to the industry of ships and| barges which have been borrowed for military purposes, on the sup- |ply essential material for the in- du and on the availability of ]\krllvd labor. ‘Likewise it is impos- sible to foretell with any degree of wcuracy what the tax returns Ifrom liquor sales will be: they were high during the first part of the last biennium, but factors relating |to the wgr are curtailing the sup- pl\ and limiting the hours in which liquor may be sold; and there may be further restrictions. I estimates of possible revenues with- in the next biennjum presented to you err on the side of conserva- err on that side. Problem of Revenue “After the Legislature has formed its collective judgment of what the revenues of the next two years may be and how much they seem likely to fall short of requested appropriations, in other words after ascertaining the size of the! prospective deficit, the Legislature {will have to decide whether these | requests should be cut and if so, how much. If reductions insuffici- ent to balance the budget cannot ‘be agreed upon, then securing ad- Therefore it may well be that the| tism—but it is probably better to/ ALASKA AT Message fo Legislature (ROSSROADS GAIN PASS SAYS GOV. Suggests Three Alterna- fives fo Avert Prob- able Deficit Ernest Gruening 'today told session of the Territorial Gov a joint |Legislature that Alaska is now at! the crossroads, that the action ta- ken within the next 60 days by the gislators now assembled for their sixteenth session will have an im- portant bearing on the future of | the Territory. The Chief Executive claimed that | through the failure of the last Leg- islature to enact the proposed tax plan, a “large amount of revenue was lost forever. “Revenues that might have been secured,” he said, “would have more a than solved all the Territory's fis-| cal problems for the duration.” May Face Deficit Earlier he said that the Territor- ial government may face a deficit due to the fact that gold mining and fishing operations have been curtailed on account of the war. He said that the primary and sec- ondary educational system faces a U.s. TROOPS | | | | | | | { | IN AFRICA »O(cupy ngh Point and| Somelhmg Is Now Up Exploslons Suggest Ra |dr Bemg Made on German Valley Without Nazi Resistance ON THE I‘UNISIAN FRONT, Jan, 27—The United States infantry| crept through the rocky, shrub- spotted hills east of here Monday morning and occupied an import- ant pass which snakes its way }around the mountain peaks. | Called Djebel Er Rihana and | Djebel Al Halfa, it leads to a coast- | al plan and commands wide, flat siretches of the Ousseltia Valley,| taken from ill-equipped French troops by a Nazi attack last week. The Americans are veterans of the November landing as well as in previous fighting in northern Tuni- | sia. They were keyed for a show- |down battle, but found the enemy had pulled out overnight, giving them uncontested possession. A heavy concentration of Amer- ican artillery stood by ready to |blast away 1f called upon when the pass was secured. Tanks swept 'along the northern reaches of the valley, clearing out the last vestige lof German occupmon Held Trondheim LONDON, Jan. 27—A Reuters dis- | patch from Stockholm reports that |throughout the Swedish Provinu\ |of Jaemtland, violent explosions are | |heard from the direction of Norway., i The explosions, the dispatch says, isuggests a raid on the German | held Port of 'Prondhelm GREATU.S. ARMYNOW INDICATED Married Men with Children May Be Drafted Says EXECUTIVES OF TWO NATIONS MAP PLANS OF WAR AGAINST AXIS DURING PRESENT YEAR To Fight Germany, Italy and Japan So Intensely that It Will Bring About “Unconditional Surrender”’- Batlling to Be Carried fo Every Part of World Is Agreement — Program Calls for Action in New Campargn Russra and China fo Be Aided WASHINGTON TALKS OVER CASABLANCA . Disappoiniment Over An- nouncement on Unien of Frenchn in | the CASABLANCA, Nurth Jan. 27—President Franklin Roosevelt, of the United States America, and British Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill have held ten-day war conference in the rth African city. i it Roosevelt is the first tive of the United lecave that counfry in Africa, D 1 a F es to wartime {e flew across the Allar Gen. Charles DeGaulle, Pighting French, and aud, ligh Congmis French in North President and r lender of el A Brit- with the Min h Prime Sen. Chandler - “The conduct of this all-out type ' ditional revenues will be necessary. SCrious crisis. | The $wo BXecittves i e of war has two aspects: on l.he “It seems clear that some cus- At the same time, he pointed | out ‘that the report of the Board WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — An United SBtates and Gn Sritain WA Jan, 21 ; s i All-Out Type of War The Washington| M G R d tone hand, we must overcome the| t g ry expenditures can be sub- errY 0-houn {enemy on land, on sea and in merag:;atlally reduced. ;‘or instance at By DREW PEARSON '“'“—m“‘ our armed forces are nNOW |{he last session, the Legislature ap- SHINGT announce ‘i complete olin the war plans for bring about the uncondit agreeme 43 that wi mnd s of Budget shows that estimated ap- | propriations and estimated revenue‘ threugh present facilities leave a by U announcement made today D ndle: inspi tin: RABUAL IS cY « rmed n d (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) engaged in doing, and here in Al-| | aska, too, they are willingly assist- | ed by the civillan population' WASHINGTON.—Ed Flynn’s ap- which has volunteered for varied pointment as Ambassador “in the duties with the Territorial Guard, Southwest Pacific” and Minister the Civilian Defense organizations to Australia was just About as and other auxiliary services. On niuch of a surprise to most of the|the other hand, we must meet the Australian Legation in Washing- assault of totalitarianism and dic- ton as it was to ill-informed White | tatorship by demonstrating, through House secretaries. Reason was that|actions, that we can and will make the President had cleared the ap- democracy work. This last is pre- ! a phone cisely the task of those assembled |here. You are meeting in the Am- pointment personally in call to Winston Churchill. | propriated $600,000 for the bien- nium for the construction and maintenance of roads and air- !fields. Most of these were in the interior and related to the gold mining industry. As this industry is suspended for the duration, and ias the Federal government is now engaged in a program of airfield and highway construction beyond anything which has ever been seen in the Territory, it would seem reasonable and appropriate to cut these Territorial expenditures. This eap of more than a million dollars. He o solve the problefi: 1—Curtail radically the opera- tions of the Territorial govern- ent. 2—Make lesser reductions such 15 suggested by the Board of Budget and trust that the revenue will be enough. 3—Strike out on the path of “common sense and vision to put our government house In order at the earliest moment.” ’ suggested three alternatives This was necessary, first, because | FDR wanted to appoint the Demo- | cratic ex-Chairman as Ambassador, and ordinarily there can be only one Ambassador from the United States to the British Empire. Also | FDR knew that Churchill was ac- quainted with Flynn personally. As a matter of fact, the British, aside from the Senate furor over| Belgian paving blocks, which they | don't understand, are not unhappy over Ed Flynn's appointment. This is chiefly because Ed is Irish—in fact very Irish, having been edu- cated in Ireland. And the Brit-| ish need more Irish ties, not only| among Irish-Americans, but among| Irish-Australians, of which there are many. Also the British know some of the backstage support Flynn has| given them and the President's] foreign policy. Back in 1940, when | foreign policy was really tough,| FDR called Ed down from the Bronx to help him get the neu- | trality act changed so he could |nium of $1,824,287.34. The reasons | in! begin aid to Britain. Flynn sat in| Majority Leader John McCormack’s i only by | for erican way, tatives of a free people, laws enacted by consent of the governed, subject only to rules of your own making, and for | the next sixty days you have be-| fore you the task of maintaining, as best you know how, our demo- cratic institutions within Alaska. “It is a time for laying aside petty differences, personal and po- litical animosities; for the submer- the elected represen- gence of selfish interests; for clear- | headed and full-hearted devotion; |for patriotism of deeds rather than of words; for action. It is a time greatness. May Face Deficit “The Territory may face a sub- stantial deficit before the end of the coming biennium. The Terri- torial Treasurer’s estimate of pro- bable receipts is $2,892,300 which is a diminution from his fairly accu- |rate estimate of two years ago by $954,300 and a reduction from the actual receipts of this past bien- for this foreshadowed decrease revenue are familiar to all of us: bound | | year, therefore, the Board of the Tax Views Same Budget transmits the Territorial, The Governor said that his views |Highway Engineer’s request ioronlyluf taxes for the Territory have not $348,000 instead of the $600,000 ap- differed in the last two years. He propriated two years ago. (In this 'called the present system a ‘“patch- connection, it should also be work” tax system and urged tax| pointed out that although gold‘rerurm' coming out strongly against! mining is suspended, a vigorousia sales tax which he said “would effort is being made to develop|be particularly obnoxious and in-| strategic minerals — a pmgram‘de(enslble because it would scarce- which has the hearty approval and |1y touch those who come up here support of everyone in the Terri- |for a_ brief season each year mére- | tory: when the appropriation for| ly to extract wealth from Aaska |roads and airports is under scru- \.snd take it outside with them.” tiny it may be well to consider it | Gov. Gruening sounded a note of AGAIN HIT NIGHT RAI i &c!g) Jap Ship Set Afire-Blazes Started at Airdrome- Catalinas Atfack ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 27—A formation { flying Fortresses took another rack at the harbor of Rabaul last night setting one big Jap ship afire with direct hits and starting fires |in the airdrome area. Catalinas also made a smaller night raid on the airdrome at Buka, in the Solomons, starting substan- tial - fires. Monday night over 20,000 tons of Japanese shipping in Rabaul suf- fered when flying Fortresses made | office, summoned a steady stream|the mining of gold, a commodity of isolationist Democrats—many cf}not essential to the prosecution of them fellow Irish—and persuadedthe war, has been suspended for them to go down the line. | the duration except in the few in- Those British who know the in-|stances where its extraction is ac- side of that fight, haven't for- | companied by the recovery of stra- gotten. | tegic minerals; and salmon pack- GOOD NEIGHBOR GETS RAW |Wwise curtailed owing to transpor- WELCOME | tation difficulties, labor and equip- %mg. our largest industry, is like- | Canadian Prime Minister Mac- | kenzie King—as' popular in this cdountry as he is in Canada—makes many unheralded trips to Wash- ington and the south without ever getting into the newspapers. On one of these recently his private car was standing in the Washing- fon railroad yards about a mile from the Union Station when there was a sudden crash against the car window. Mackenzie King, who had been|'he Territorial Treasurer and I principally because the war has| sitting beside the window quietly reading, was so surprised that he| jumped up, cried, “Assassin!” But he found it was only an urchin heaving a rock at his car window. Afterward the portly Prime Minister got down on his hands and knees and searched the floor to pick up pieces of glass. | WILLKIE AND THE CENSOR Wendell Willkie sent a hot tele-| gram to Chief Censor Byron Price | (Continued on Page Four) ment shortages incidental to the war. These two industries have been the chief sources of Territorial revenue. “Since the responsibility for meeting this situation belongs’ to the Legislature, I would like to suggest that it make its own care- | ful appraisal of probable or pos-| sible revenues. In going over thé| estimates presented to the Legis-| lature by the Board of the Budget, were both aware that in a num- |ber of instances the estimate of | revenues from a given source could not be much more than approxi- mate. For instance, we know that even with the unanimous desire of everyone concerned with the sal- mon industry—management, labor, |government—to secure the largest possible pack because of the na- tional need for increased food pro- |duction, it is nevertheless impos- |sible to foretell what effect the | militafy situation may have on transportation facilities, on the x'e-i in relation to this new develop-| ment which offers considerable hope and prospect for a future| diversification of our mining in- dustry.) Bounties Cut “A drastic reduction in the ap- propriation for bounties is also presented for your consideration and decision. At the last session, eagle and trout bounties were elim- inated by not appropriating bounty | payments, although the laws au- thorizing these bounties remain on the statute books. At the last ses- sion, $165,000 was appropriated for bounties on coyotes and wolves and $80,000 for hair seals. The Board of the Budget has this year recommended the elimination of the bounty on hair seals and coy- otes, leaving $75,000 for wolf boun- ties; this would effect a net pros- pective saving of $170,000, should the Legislature approve the sug- gested cut. “These two proposed savings on roads and bounties together total $422,000. Some other savings are no doubt possible, and their de- termination rests with the Legis- lature. “In addition to the above pos- sible savings, the Territorial treas- ‘ur} at present has a rather sub- |stantial surplus ($801,007.20 as |compared with $637,693.25 in 1940) (made impossible certain expendi- tures appropriated for: $175,000 ap- propriated for the Pioneers’ Home Extension could not be spent be- !cause priorities could not be se- cured on construction materials: new school construction and repair could not be done and some roads could not be built for the same reason; the $91441 residue in the bounty appropriations apparently is available hecause the usual boun- ty hunters were too well employed |tory in actuality still is very good optimism when he said that the “economic situation of the Terri raids at midnight. Russians in Drive, 245 Miles He referred to war construction and employment with wages higher for workers than ever before in the history of Alaska. At one point in the addre: said that it also might be poss that the estimate of possible rev- enues err on the side of conserva- tism. The Governor delivered his mes- sage shortly after 2 o'clock. The gallery of the House Chambers was packed and some stood outside of the open gallery doors to hear the address. President O. D. Cochran of the Senate presided over the joint ses- sion. e Fuel Oil Is fo MOSCOW, Jan 27—Joseph stalrn’ declares the Red Army has driven forward 245 miles in two months | in the second winter offensive, rout- ing 102 enemy divisions and taken 200,000 Nazis as prisoners. | Stalin in his broadcast praised ihis troops, his commanders and | workers The statements were | rhmuzhout Russia. broadeast Be Cut Down FIRST BILL IS In 2 States INTRODUCED Rationing WTH Reduce BY SM I T H Supply About 25 Percent Effective February 1 ooci e fiest souse vt into o hopper this morning, introducin WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Domes- House Bill 1 for its first readi tic users of heating oil in Wash- ‘ngton and Oregon will have sup- Wwelfare act to set up a Juven plies reduced approximately 25 pe].\c(}d(' whereéby children under cent under new rationing. would be tried in U. S. Commis This rationing, the OPA spokes- | sioner’s Courts but would not be man said, will probably get under treated. as criminals. way by Pebruary 1 and he further, The bill would abolish the Board Representative Harvey Smi 1 as inventories show a decline in a $75,000 appropriation. A similar supplies and steps must be taken bill passed the House last session (Continued on Page ‘Three) to conserve the fuel oil supplies. l'““ was killed in the Senate. an act to amend the present chilc said war exigencies require action of Children’s Guardians. It carries| STALINGRAD DEFENDERS FACE DEATH - But They Are German Not Russians-Annihilation is Predicted MOSCOW, Jan. 27.-In one of {the war's strangest quirks, the de-, ifenders of Stalingrad are Germa not Russians. The remnant of Nazi forces now |fighting off attacks against the | battered s, number 12,000 the Russizns announced Lnd:\v m v special communigue. ‘ The report read: “It is only a | matter of two or three days before the enemy force will be complete- y annihilated Battlefront that the Red Army is proceeding !r lentlessly with the destruction of the trapped Nazi troops. - > FORCES OF U. S. TAKE spatches Beach and Village of Ko- p kumbona, on Guadal- canal, Is Captured WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Ameri- an forces have consolidated posi- ons at Kokumbona, Jap head- ers on Guadalcanal, and con- the village and beach after lling 293 enemy troopers. The Navy reports that a force of Jap dive bombers, probably fly- ona were intercepted and turned by ——r—— BUY DEFENSE BONDS render” of the Germans, Italian: conferences JAP BASE ing to help the forces at Kokum-‘ American fighter planes. no! unee ompli nn red, 0! criti Wheeler of f the declared e ot described as “most wise and| timely, and most far-reaching in rrportanoe CONFERENCE HAS EFFECT IN LONDON Roosevelt - Churchill Con- fab Boosts Hope of British LONDON, Jan 27—The President ! Roosevelt-Prime Minister Churchill British hopes that the final blow at he heart of Hitlerism will be struck ‘n 1943. Dramatic dispatches, telling of the Casablanca council of war, tirred deep satisfaction within both flicial nd unofticial circles, with all nvinced the results of the talks will make the blackest news for the Axis before the year ends. The confirmation of ‘“uncondi- tional surrender” of the enemy gov- crnments remained as the basic sjective and was hailed as a pow- ful reassurance to the British who ive taken too many blows to ac- cepf anv lesser victory. - Toogie-Woogic or Serious Music Is Wanled at Camp NEW YORK — Songstress Anna | 14 Dickey, just returned from a ! tour of soldier camps, says | the boys either want boogie-woogie or good serious music — they will have none of the sentimental mu- sical nonsense that lies between the | two. | - - Monthly attendance in USO clubs has now passed the 7,000,000 mark. but some- ' conference which| | o Jopancse alin Not. Presess . Rovsey ( iet Forces, w onference but bec was nd wuse of the esence in often med of » present stve. Stalin infor Ro ety ident h 1032 sevelt wa in: National vention to accept the P sldeflnl' nomination the first time High Ofticlals With FDR President Roosevelt was accom- sanied to North Africa by Gen izorge C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Ad- miral Ernest J. King, Chief of ~aval Operations; Lieut. Gen fenry H. Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Alr Force; and farry Hopkins. With Churchill British Prime Minister Churchill was accompanied here by Admiral jir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord nd Chief of Great Britain’s Navy taff;, Gen, Sir Alan Francis iirooke, Chief of the Imperial taff; Vice Admiral Lord Louis fountbatten, Chief of the Com- /ined Operations — Commandos —; nd Field Marshal 8ir John Dill. Those at Conferences Attending the conferences were reported rendezvous in Morocco has boosted | Major Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow- r, Commander-In-Chief of the J. 8. Forces in North Africa; Maj. jen. C. Speetz, Chief of the JS.AAF., European Theatre, and hree of the leading British fig- ures in the drive against Marshal Erwin Rommel, Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, British Commander-In- Chief of the Middle East; Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Commander of the British Eighth {Army, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Vice-Chief of the British Air Forces, while the Presi- dent’s Envoy, Robert Murphy, flit- ted in the background. How They Appeared Giraud and DeGaulle, clad French Army uniforms, appew:. from the President's quartcrs, LlLMly Iclhwuj by Presldon |and with his usual c!zlmte hold- Ser carried at @& jauaty an,.e |Churchill in a dark grey, suit ana { with his usual cigar, followed. Fol chairs were In the gaird |ceive the distinguished DeGaulle and Gir hands for the beneiit | tographers. President Re t |Wwas a momentous moment land DeGoulle immediately back inte the fellow aud I house ing { \l,anuuued on Page Five)