The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JU\JEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 VOL. LX., NO. 9252. MFMRFR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICF TEN CENTS U.S.SHIPS ATTACKED WEST OF ALEUTIANS gin African Offensive Five Roads fo Tokio American Forces Be ! BIG DRIVE HAS BEGUN. CLAIMAXIS Enemy Sources Tell AII¢ About New Movements | by Allied Forces | (By Associated Press) The American attempt to dnwi a wedge between the converging armies of Marshal Erwin Rommel | and Col. Gen. von Atnim, in Cen-k tral Tunisia, is suggested by Axis reports as the Allied Air arm re- sumed lethal sweeps over the Nnnhl African battle lines to Italy The Vichy radio says the U. S., Forces, originally concentrated at Tebessa, Algeria, 150 miles south- | west of Tunis, have begun the of-| fensive. The Military spokesman in Ber- | lin is quoted on the German radio as saying the Americans are “plan- | ning a major offensive” and pre-| sumably such a drive will be toward the Gulf of Gabes, relatively a vul-| nerable sector line of Rommel’s re- treat The Nazi controlled Paris radio| is' more specific and says most of | the troops involved are British. The Paris radio rurther declared that thnunum on Page Five) The Washlngtun, Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Among the President’s close inner circle no one has talked with him about a fourth term, with the possible ex- ception of Harry Hopkins, and | Harry these days moves in such! rarefied atmosphere that not even other White House intimates know exactly what he thinks or talks about to the President. However, you can't get away from the fact that some of the President’s friends already are dis- cussing a fourth term. They are doing it with various degrees of reaction, however. Some mention it reluctantly, as if they didn't want{ it, but think it necessary because | there is no one else on the Demo- cratic horizon. Some few definitely believe the President should run, hope he will run, and think he will be elected. They, however, are in a minority. | From one man, not as close as Hopkins but who sees the Presi- dent frequently, comes this diag- nosis: | “It will take wild horses to drag| the Boss into running for a founh‘ term. But he isn't going to say so.| There is nothing he loves more than to keep people guessing. He is going to do just what he dld‘ last time—say nothing until the last minute. | “However, the picture is differ- ent from that in 1940. Then, we approached certain war, with only one man who could lead and unify the country in preparation for that war. The nation was torn between isolationists and interventionists. We could have been disastrously split, the way the Nazis planned.| Only now do we realize how dan- gerously we were open to attack. “That was the primary reason Roosevelt stayed on, to bridge us| over the war gap. But now that | we are in the war, and on the rcad to victory, he doesnt feel the same way. The issue is not so ur- gent, and he will not run in 1944." NOTE: This friend om.tted one whole be made the committee to under FDR! elso wants to win the peace after| factor from his diagnosis. the war. To this end, some friends tnink he should make a deal with Willkie or Henry Wallace to let kim handle the peace after 1941 while they handle the White House. CAPITOL CHAFF ‘The Army has found a new type of work for defeated Congressmen e e o NG ) SR #Continued on Page Four) Flymg Foriresses Leave Yapor Trails e ——— Y Flying Fortresses, flying at a high altitude over England in bombing maneuvers, left vapor trails that resembled a smoke screen. The pirlurc was taken from a Fortress (Iving at a lower level. SENATE TO Debunkers Get Chance INVESTIGATE To Spread Propaganda LABOR DEPT. Over Adion of China Committee fo Be Given x o SHORTHOUSE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—When the story started simmering here Addl"onal Powers In recently that Generalissimo Chiang | Kai-Shek had recalled his mili- Inves"gahon tary mission to the United States because we were transferring war | A supplementary report of the | materials in India destined for China to the British, the dehunkfl\ went to work again. This is a story that might wtll have started on Axis short-wave stations. Let’s examine the facts. It's true: Department of Labor; delivered to members of the Territorial Senate »n the opening day by Commis- sioner Walter P. Sharpe, resulted | his afternoon in the formation of | plans for a complete investigation of charges made in the report against former Commissioner Mi-|; priate $1,500 as a deficlency ap- | chael J. Haas. proprigtion to be used in paying Senator A. P. Walker, who for-|y; g Commissioners for recording merly was employed by Haas, and | yjiq) statistis records. Speaker who is also mentioned in the re-|pyis referred the bill to the Ways port “by inference,” brought the.,q Means Committee. matter before the Senate by urg-| oo worvew Smith introduced a |out aid being given China (but ing that Haas be given hanc i i % mgexphm m:mse “H th: cch:rge‘: substitute bill for House Bill No. | neither is Stalin happy about aid be proved true, Walker said, pun- ishment should be meted out. If{ proved false, the man who made the charges should be made to answer to the Senate. Implication “The charges he makes imply that I, myself,” Walker said, "am in some way involved.” | Senator Edward D. Coffey stat- ed that since the appointment of HELD TODAY Rep. Frank H. Whaley this morning introduced a bill to ap- it's going to take a leisurely junket through training centers and war plants and probably will not ac- tually be on its way for six weeks| vet); (2) that the Generalissimo The substitute bill calls for {establishing of a Juvenile Code for|¢lean up his Australian area; noy the Territory under which chil-| the Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians, dren under 18 years of age would|Greeks, etc, ~ happy that we Ibe tried in U. S. Commissioners|Naven't opened a big second front {Court but not criminals. The | ©P their frontiers. substitute bill carries a $50,000 ap-| -(3) There is no longer any open propriation. road to China. The only pmslbl(, The House adjourned until 1| %oy We can get any supplies to o'clock tomorrow morning. The| them immediately is by plane. The only way we can get heavy suppm Ways and Means Committee un- Haas was ot a to the 5 as made by the Senate and dir Ohikinman Too' Regks ket o em soon is by reopening Lm House at th SSil at- e last session, the mat-| .o "is afternoon to get started ter should be investigated, and if ks e g SANARY 0 i 2 T 5 SRRt there s “any reason to belie\'vwn an appropriations bill. «Cont.mued on Page Five) Dinner Dance Isto 1™ e o"skn Arounn Coffey suggested that the Judi- Be Given USO Girls 11 ciary Committee conduct the in- vestigation. ( President O. D. Cochran agreed (1) That the Chinese military com- | | mission has started for home (but | isn’t happy about the short-of-all-| 1, which he introduced yesterday./to Russia; Prime Minister C“r"m}tlw the | happy about what is being done to| qught the Nazis throwing gaso-' Burma Road. The only way we can| RED ARMY ATTACKING Berlm Broadcasts Report of Eighth Major Offen- | sive Against Axis \ | (By Associated Press) | Russian troops on the Central |sector northwest of Voronezh be- |gan attacking the German lines on |Tuesday with considerable force, the German radio said last night. The broadcast was recorded here by the Associated Press. If this report is true, the Red Army has now opened the eighth offensive against the Axis | | major |across Russia. The Berlin broadcast frequent! announces the Red Army's blows ahead of the announcement from Moscow. PISSGISEEEE MERCILESS ATTACKON - NAZI UNITS German Defgliiers of Stal- ingrad Denounce Hit- ler, Their Officers MOSCOW, Jan. 28—The Russians continuing the merciless exter- ation of the doomed Germans before Stalingrad and quote pri- | Cuews taken as denouncing | «nd algo their officers who have run away and left us.” The Red Army has widened the front in the Caucasus to the west- ward by capturing two cities close | to the Maikop oil fields. Unofficially it is reported here the Germans have announced a new retreat west of Voronezh to ibsorb the line. Officially,, of the Germans are shattered and |line on their planes. The Germans ve lost their last airdrome and 0 48 tanks during the past lZ hours Late this afternoon communique said two ci ronskaya and Neftegorsk | western Caucasus, have bm-n c:xp- | ured by the Russians. - MILITARY }(ONFEREN(E ofiu.la] Apsh- an R 840 FALL CASABLANCA ... ~ NEW AREA on a front extending virtually cle .xr‘ | the Stalingrad forces Red Army, driving into the u:y - JAPS JUMP ' INTO ACTION, WEST ALASKA Two Nippofioatal?lanes Make Move Against | American Shipping | s | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — The | Navy announced this morning that wo Jap float planes attacked Uni- ted States ships somewhere west our positions in the Aleutians sut no damage was suffered. The Navy said ‘this was the first such Jap action in the Aleutians in | months. The Navy spokesman said the Jap planes were probably operating bt of Kiska. What type of U. 8. ships were attacked is not specified. The Navy also sald that “on Jan- uary 26, United States Troops in Guadaleanal continued to advance to the west despite stiff enemy re- | sistance. Forty Japs were killed and five prisoners and some enemy equip- ment were cnptuxed 2 f \llhuugh the Japanese have carved out a huge cmplre slnce Pearl | Harbor, they still find themselves endangered by possible attack from | five directions; three over long sea routes, two from the Asiatic main- | land. This map shows the general directions of such attack. But at present the United Nations are on the outer edges of all five arrows, I ‘ aml each road is filled with difficult strategic handlcnps and problems | supply. Charge Made Japanese i Army Using Poison Gés; DUSSELDORFIS Spedfic I u&am Given ATTACKED BY -+ RAF BOMBERS NGKING, Jan. 28—An of- CHI ial wrge that the Japanese ,u.mr northwe: >l of H\mguux(, r is using polson gas, the first in southern Shansi Province on ..,. -— e i Uniod Siaes and, Grest uTiiny 5y umed poison gas v, AOIEF Aerial Blow Struck I Mo e s e s the wina a1 OGMany-Americans Shimine Hall i e evion Hit Copenhagen “Hitler ' —— LONDON, Jan, 28-~The RAF hit the German city of Dusseldorf Tojo Boasis Japs Are ves and incendiary bombs last night, the fourth Allied aerial : blow at the German war machine utfo Crush America, b Pr 144 night's raid on Rhineland By Lancasters and Halifaxes show that several hundred tons of explosives 1hs were dropped and incendlary 20 minutes. Heavy blagk cloud made it difficult to assess the re- sult but the flare of fierce fires ccn after the attack are believed to be evidence the attack was ef- fective,” the communique says. Six bombcrs are reported missin American bembers today - also | made a heavy attack on industrial chjectives and the first bombing | i Copenhagen is reported. D - OPA Demands Now Cause Fxtra Work eliminary h,xnh of 1 [ [] ] Brifain; Victory dure G i (By Assoc| lltcd Press) IHREAI IS convened session of the Japanese Diet today that Japan is waging |war to “enable all countries to EXTENDED \lhat all peoples will live lives of w peace and security.” ance of this ideal, is marching “to crush the United States and Bri- The Japanese radio reported de- Lall§ of the speech in a broadcast Government i Official Re- ! Tojo said Japan is in the midst l pon Heavy Jap con' ’ol a war of “unprccedented scale 1 Great Britain, which he said “vaunt their wealth and strength to the Premter Hideki Tojo told a re- (nnd their proper places and s0 ‘ He said that Japan, in pursu- Luin," recorded by the Associated Press. zainst both the United States and centrafions Seen |¢ world, in order to destroy their Jan. 28.—Australi- | public nature.” He said it would be impossible for the Senate to shirk its duty in the matter. He sug- | gested that the committee be given additional powers to call witnesses and conduct a full hearing, jbenawr Coffey was selected to see | Attorney General Henry Roden re- ;;.Ardmg the matter of drawing up {the resolution creating the com- ‘milk’e. Gordon’s View | Senator Frank S. Gordon then suggested that the Senate as a conduct the investigation. Presi- dent Cochran replied that he | thought the matter should be taken |up by the committee, only, he believed this would be proper . procedure, Senator A. P. Walker then spoke ‘in vor of making the hearings |entirely public. President Cochran suggested that the | J (Continued on Page Three) and | that ¢ tend the USO dinner and dance 10|y know that he is almost himself be held Friday night, January 29~‘ugain after falling down a long at 6:30 o'clock in the USO club. | the USO roll. These girls areasked | geath, and- “not by accident or {to call the USO, 766, and leave other causes.” ‘hen‘ names so they may be prop-| After the accident referred to,! erly appended. | friends wanted him to go to the| - —— i hospital, but he *declined, saying “they'd take my clothes away from | i ! galvage operations for the re- rovery of the Don Glass plane got | way this morning at 11 o'clock, officials reported, and were still proceeding late this afternocon. | Working in deep water, where livers found difficuty in opemung,‘fmm 16 to 65 and for all women, | back.” | .- LONDON, Jan. 28— Compulsory | £ airway to a cement platform. Some of these names were omit- | nry williams, who is nearly &5 | ted fre i rday i [ rom the list printed yesterday |years old, says indications tend to |because they are not recorded on|inow that he will die a natural! me and make me lie flat on my| labor service for all German men, ' may be pending against Northern Australia IBrams of Amenca Grea | Brifain Fighters Map |, S0t tonatine souer Out New Strategy !that Jap troop shipping concen- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS trations have been strengthened wcavily and the enemy movements e extending in an area in the | IN |NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 28 — A 48- vicitic remote from Australia but hour conference here attended by .onverging in this direction. | the best military brains of the' njs movement, it is said, is on "'ml d States and Great Britain cale great enough to cause [sbarply foreshadowed the day when . .."oincim Enemy /shipping is e United Nations will, uze North concentrated to the north | Africa as a springboard 101 an at- ralia and Jap activity is ack on Burope. ang along the south coast of conferred with Com-~ in ary Chiefs D. D. Eisenhower, 1ander-in-Chief of the forces 'w Guinea. T e lines were placed on the plane yes | 17 to 45, is decreed by the Ger- Africa and then all hasiened 5y MICKELSON HERE terday, jEBEaethaicat L inday.; This o thel military. quarters. FROM EXCURSION I) Some suggestions have been ad-|Aaccording to a broadcast by the 7The Casablamea . ccnference par- W. Mickels e ok ' on- vanced by local boatmen that the| German radio and picked up here ticipated in by, President Roosevelt A W. MISebom wih e O |salvage crew may decide to pull’ this afternoon. . and Prime Minister Churchill, is ~*ne¢™s 1R Brolsck at Excur- Ithe plane into shallow water! ———— teken to indicate the Allies consid- “ion Tnlel, I8 in Juneau, staying |where divers can more easlly A “siren suit” for plane spot- er the Mediterranean offensive ©f T Baraiiof Hotel. Mr. Mickel- ~|attach the necessary lines for rais- te¥s is made of redwood bark against the Axis one of the best lved Tuesday and plans to |ing the huge land ship. mixed with wool. 'bids for vietory. ieturn later this week. | ) \ with Coffey, further stating that 5 although it was an unpleasa i 7 Gov indicate Sinister ambitions to dominate the duty, the charges até. of 2 gx'a:/]: All GSO. girls who have.worked | R g williams, Sr, of the Sea- | ’i‘\'ql‘u, l:::;;:m;;?:w‘s:::;; i world.” ? at the canteen are asked t0 at-|yjew Apartments, wants his friends | Reviewing the first year of the war in Greater East Asia, Tojo sald Jupan has compieiea e v Kelchikan Company Hires e ense ana aetenss no Woman Just for Spec- ial Work Alone been completed.” — e — XETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 28— Alaska’s OPA’s increasingly volum- yn“ enles nous price reports has resulted in (h e Tongass Trading Company hiring 2 woman “to do nothing but LOS ANGELES, Calif. Jan. 28— Pilm actor Errol Flynn denied on the witness stand that he was in- timate with Peggy LaRue Satter- les on his yachy trip to Catalina Island in August, 1942, Flynn is accused of statutory repe of Miss Satterlee and another, girl. mpile statistics for OPA." General Manager Paul Adams d Miss Emily Kuriger, former Chief Clerk of the Starr Grocery, Anchorage, “will spend her entire time checking invoices and other- wise attempting to compy with OPA’s requests for price data which ur ordinary office staff cannot iigd time to handle.” - Twenty different types of serum produced in large quantity drug factory in China operated f.u ,xuamua bands. n age -0 BUY DEFENSE BONDS i< B