The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9253. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CENTY AMERICANS STRIKE BLOW, ITALIAN PORT Red Forces Keep Driving On German Troops Walker, Demo Chairman RUSSIANS ADVANCING ON PLAINS Nazis Thrust Back 12 Mlles -Three Generals Are Taken Prisoners MOSCOW, Jan. 20 — The Red| Army Forces, are today reported driving steadily forward on the | plains west of Veronezh, and tear- | ing into the flanks of the retreat- ing Germans who are already thrust back more than 12 miles,| losing 9,000 men killed and captured | (Cormnued on Page Six) HUNTING LICENSES FOR ARMED FORCES IN NORTH PROBABLE WASHINGTON, ' Jan. 29 — The Departments of Interior and War, bave returned favorable reports on the House Territories Committee | bill to revise the Alaska Game Laws. said Alaska Delegate Anthony J.! Dimond today. { The Delegate said the measure will authorize granting of hunt-| ing licenses to members of the| armed forces on the same basis as residents of Alaska after being in the Territory for one year. Delegate Dimond said he will ask for an early hearing on the measure. The Washlngtun Merry -Go-Round — By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Not all of the recurrent troubles with interned Japs in Western camps have leaked into the newspapers. One hot spot has been the Tule Lake camp in Northern California, where there was a near riot sev- eral months ago. Jap evacuees, put to work on near-by truck farms, went on strike and threat- ened bodily harm to any of their comrades who did not join in the walkout. To prevent possible bloodshed, the War Relocation Authority told | the evacuees that they could re-| turn to camp and pick other jobs | for their $16-a-month wage plus‘ food and housing. Since then, WRA officials have been keeping a weather eye on the Lake Tule camp, for it includes| some bad agitators among both the | “Issei” (Japanese-born) and the! “Kibel” (American-born Japs ‘edu- | cated in‘Japan). A favorite method of spreading| dissension and unrest among loyal‘ Jap evacuees, chiefly the “Nesei” [ (American-born and U. S. citi- zens), is to tell them that they get| the same treatment in detention | camps as the “Issei” and “Kibei”| evacuees, despite their loyalty m the United States. There have been several cases where “Nesei” evacuees who re- fused to renounce the United States | and coopernted wholeheartedly | with camp supervisors were beaten | by the “Kibei.” Another device o(i the agitators is to put up signs dur- ing the night proclaumng sucln Axis catch phrases as “Anybody | who remains loyal to the United States is a fool. . . Dont work for an Allied victory. . . . will win.” At Granada, Colo., strike of evacuees, who refused to haul coal in WRA trucks from La- mar, Colo., was broken up when camp officials, unable to get out- side labor, served notice that the evacuees either would haul coal— or freeze. However, the government doesn't always have to get tough. Some: | a siL-down i " iContinued on Page Foun) Retiring Chairman Edward J. Flynn (right), clasped the hand of Postmaster General Frank C. Walker as he welcomed him to the rostrum at Chicago after Walker’s cratic National Committee. election as Chairman of the Demo- Auto Dealers Hang On Notwithstanding War; I(eep Hllllng on All 8 Ul NI [IONS HIT BYPROPOSED LEGISLATION {House Judi(ia}y Commit- tee Approves Anti- Racketeer Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — The House Judiclary Committee has appm\ed legislation to subject la- |bor union leaders to penalties and heavy fines or imprisonment on | evidence provided by 34 anti-racke- | teering cases involving interferences |with interstate commerce of the government. These interferences were identi- fied as blocking truck shipments and other similar cases. The committee’s action split the vote of Representatives Lane and Celler, Democrats opposing the bill introduced by Rep. Hobbs. The legislation provides a maxi- | mum- penalty of 20 years imprison- | ment and a fine of $10,000 for| anyone interfering with interstate' commerce movements during war- time. Hobbs said it is aimed at prac- tices of some labor unions Whlch“m the cast where gas rationing has| are blocking truck shipments be- cause union labor is not cmployed‘ - SHOTDOWN LONDON, Jan. 29. — A Reuters |dispateh tonight says Swiss new. papers publish stories reporting that 170 men and 80 women have been chot at Marseille where the Ger- |mans have ordered evacuation of the old section, for revolting on the order. - Hudson Bay was discovered by the Cabots in 1498; first explored Ly Henry Hudson in 1610, By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 30— Con- gr of a survey which may be the key to what has happened and is hap- pening to the nation’s 36,000 auto- mobile dealers. Here is an industry which, it ap- pears on the surface, the war vi tually annihilated. With prac- tically no «<ars to sell; parts, tires, gasoline and oil rationed; and mechanics drafted or lured away by higher wages in gar industries, it was almost inconceivable that the auto dealer and garage man could stay in business. Yet the survey of Joseph W. Frazer, an auto company presi- dent, indicates such isn’t the case at all. naire was sent to more than 2,000 !Cealers. If it's a fair sampling, {more than 72 per cent of the deal-| ers will still be in business at the end of the duration, and 20 per| cent of the prospective or actual dealer casualties expect to reopen as soon as the war is over. This 20 per cent doubted that it could survive but only 8 per nt declared definitely that they were out of business now or would be before hostilities cease. That's a good deal different from the pre- ‘mction; of a year ago that more than half the automobile dealers ;would be bankrupt before the end of 1942, | The greatest mortality rate is i been in operation for months, but| lit is only 6 per cent greater than| the rest of the nation. Frazer thinks car dealers have hown unusual ingenuity, Answers to his questionnaires show that the automobile men are selling every- | thing from beer to blackout sup- plies in order to pay rentals, keep| | their staffs intact, and themselves| off the bread line. There are, of| course, some new car sales. There are some tire and gas and oil sales. And depleted repair shop staffs have 1l the business they can handle. Then, too, there is the second hand car business. In the heavily popu- lated states of New York, Penn-| sylvania, Michigan and California, | (Continued on Page Six) snien and other government of-| ficials interested in the plight of |lombangara and the New Georgian | small business are studying results| Frazer's detailed question-| ~| REPORT NEW BATTLE IN SOLOMONS Enemy Losses Given After| Two Day of Furious Fighting WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—In two days of furious fighting in the Sol- omons, the Navy reports, Amen- can forces damaged two Jap Cargo | ships, two destroyers and a tanker, destroyed 10 enemy planes and killed 36 Jap troops. | The operations resulted in the | capture of another enemy coms | mand post. Three Japs were taken prisoner. One of the cargo ships listed as damaged probably sank, the Navy says. Four American planes were missing after the battle. Location Not Given The location of the enemy com- mand post, while not given in the communique, is believed to be somewhere along the four-mile stretch of coastal country between Kokumbona and Tassafaronga. i American forces captured Ko- Ruwmpoua a lew days ago. Tassa- {faronza will bé the next objective along the coast. f The American offensive action against the enemy ships and , according to leccations given lin the communique, apparently all | | were directed in the Kolombangara | | area in the New Georgia group |of islands, near the enemy's Mun- |da air base. Kolombangara is 190 | miles northwest of Guadalcanal, |1t only recently was brought un- |der attack, but since the opera- tions against it have been started, Ut has been heavily bombed by our | forces. 4 At Verla Gulf | Verla Gulf, where the cargo ship jand destroyer were attacked, is a 13-mile body of water between Ko- | island of Vella la Vella. The successful American actions reported today raised the Jap losses 'in planés in the Solomons campaign fo 791 destroyed in com- {bat. Enemy ship losses now stand at 57 sunk, seven probably sunk, 98 damaged. FIRST BILL IS PASSED | The House of Representatives | passed the first bill of the Six- teenth Session this morning, send- ing to the Senate House Bill No. 2, to provide a $1,500 deficiency ap- propriation to be used in paying U. S. Commissioners for recording birth and death certificates. | The bill was introduced yester- |day by Rep. Frank H. Whaley, and |was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Chairman Leo Rogge, said the committee had re- | ported favorably on the bill, and |and third reading and passed un- animously on roll call. | HORACETAFT . DIES IN EAST | WATERTOWN, Conn. Jan. 29— |Horace D. Taft, 81, brother of the late President, founder, and for (many years Head Master at Taft ives, — e - BUY DEFENSE BONDS | nautical Britons Clear Away Debris, RetaliationRaid Rogge moved a suspension of the German Labor Front leader, said in| rules. The bill was given its becond‘d German broadcast heard by Reu- o BY Housg NAZILABOR - 8chool for Boys at Watertown, died 29 |last night. Another brother, Henry train smashup in Cajon Pass last |W. Taft, New York attorney, sur- night briush girls and men cleaned up shattered gllsu out side a London department store which felt l,he effects of a “feeble” air raid by the Nazis in retaliatin for tie huge raids on Berlin by the RAF. Picture cabled from London to New York. Jags Hdpmg Russia Will Still Respect Old Neutrality Pad (By Associated Press) undergone no modification.” This Japan intends to respect her neu- ! attitude he added, “is based on the trality pact with Soviet Russia and | assumption that the Soviet gov- <sumes the Soviet Union will do'ernment will do likewise in respecL~ same, Jap Foreign Minister Tani | ing the pact.” declared yesterday, according to the Premier General Tojo told "“’\ version of his speech to the Jap same session that the victories of | Diet broadcast on Axis radios. |Japan’s armed forces during the The Berlin version, recorded by past year laid the foundations for| the Associated Press, quoted Tani ! certain victory over the United as saying that Tokyo's “policy of Stsbes and Britain, whom he charg- respecting the neutrality pact which ! ed with “sinister ambitions to dom-li was concluded in Ap 1, 1941, has inate the world” Asks $25, 000 000 for Construction of New Highway fo Northland WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—A bill authorizing a $25,000,000 appropri- ation for construction of another military supply highway to Alaska has been introduced by Senator dcmer T, Bene of Washington Senater Bone sald the road would be between Prince George, | Whitehorse and FairBanks, follow- | ing the “A" route recommended by | the Alaska International Highway Commission. | Senator Bone added thal | route which has been built dlalcgdrd to the recommendations |of the Commission and does not \mecl the needs of the Pacific Coast | States.” ! Robert Ley Says War May | Be Decided by Nar- row Margin | LONDON, Jan. 29—Robert Ley, the was in D ABANDON SEARCH, MISSING PLANE OF |ters News Agenev that “this is a war where the finish may be de- cided by a narrow margin of a few inche: Lev said there are now 7,000.000 foreign workers in German arma-. ment industries, and added, "It is ' obvjous that debates are going on KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 29 everywhere in industrial plants Search for the Morrison-Knudsen about the presumable outcome of Lockheed -Electra, piloted by Har- th old Gillam, missing three weeks as been given up by both the Camadian and American Air Forces | 't is disclosed here. Any further search will be con- ducted by company planes alone Gillam and his five passengers disappeared either in the British Columbia wilderness or the waters | of the inside passage while enroute from Seattle to Alaska. An intensive search has failed to |yield a single clue to the tragedy. war.” TRAIN SMASHUP SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Jan. The toll as the result of the rose to three this after- noon. Fourteen persons were in- jured in the rearend collision of a passenger and freight train, PRESIDENT PAYS VISIT T0 LIBERIA Roosevelt Reviewed Negro Troops—Saw Presi- dent Barclay BULLETIN—Rio de Janeiro, Jan, 29.— President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Getulio Vardas of Brazil, conferred at Natal, Brazil, last night, it is officially announced. Natal is the terminus of the South Atlantic airplane service to Africa. At the conference were Ad- miral Jonas Ipgram, Comman- der of the United States Naval Forces in the South Atlantic, and U. 8. Ambassador Jeffer- son Caffery. 'The talks be- tween the two Presidents were brief, aecording to official an- nouncement but more details will be given when Vargas re- turns to Rio de Janeiro. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — The| White House disclosed last night that President Roosevelt paused in | Liberia on his way back from the, historic conference in North Africa | to pay his respects to President Ed-| win Barclay and to review Amer-| ican Negro troops stationed there. A dispatch dated from Monravia| yesterday, received last night, said| the President also inspected a large Firestone rubber plantation in the! Republic, which was founded in 1822 by Negro freedmen from this country. . The President and Prime Minister | Churchill, upon concluding the con- ference in Casablanca, motored | some 150 miles southward to Marra- kech and spent the night in this ancient Arab town at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. They parted the following day, the President flying to Liberia in a4 four -motored transport, land- ing at Roberts Field about 50 miles from Monravia, After lunch, Roosevelt and Presi- dent Barclay bounced out to a par- ade ground in a jeep and reviewed the 41st' Engineers, part of a de- fense attachment commanded by Col. A. A. Kirchofl. The band play- ed the American and Liberian na- tional anthems, rendered with full honors. N | | | - Heavier loads and more efficient handling have added the equivalent of 151,000 freight cars to the Am- erican rallway system - BUY DEFENSE BONDS ~ SFAX HARBOR, RAIL YARDS, ARE BOMBED u.s. Raide;;ilake Heav- iest Atfack Yet on One Harbor-Fires Set (By Associated Press) The harbor and railway yards at Sfax, supply port vital to the re- grouping Axis forces in Tunisia, were hard hit by the Twelfth U. 8. Air Force in the greatest raid of the war, while the British Eighth Army artillery duelled Rom- mel’s rear in the Zugra area, 35 | miles east of the Tunisian (mn~ § tier. The Axis forccs betrayed the jit- ters by the radio suggestions that | the British First Army has al- reddy sturted the big drive in the | "unisian campaign Unconfirmed reports are that American forces on the Tunisian front have launched or are pre- paring to launch an offensive. Radio ' broadcasts give no con- firmation 'that the offensive is now underway. § The Allied Headquarters in North ' Africa said “there 15 no change in the ground situation.”. United States heavy pnd medi- um bombers struck Sfax in four |waves yesterday, blasted rail lines and the harbor facilities heavily and left many fires burning. 8ix Axis planes that attempted to intervene were shot down. The Air Force spokesman said the number of planes used was the largest ever sent against a |single target. The Italian High Command ac- knowledges heavy damage on the . raids on Sfax. S e — DON GLASS FOUND IN AIRPLANE JSaIvage oowdley Air- ways Craft Confin- ued_ : ngay With diver Bill Rice, Chief Boatswain, U. 8. Coast Guard, making a dive through slush ice under the supervision of Ensign Arthur Hook, head diver, gear was attached to the Woodley plane in Gastineaun Channel today and recovery of the plane was accomplished, of- ficials reported this afternoon. The body of Don Glass, found in the cockpit of the planc, was brought in and is at the C. W. Carter Mortuary. Mail which was in the plane at the time of the crash, was recovered and has been taken to the Post Office where it is under the supervision of the U. S. Army. The tri-motored Stinson plane was brought in town and is now on the Government dock. Don Glass, pilot of the Woodley Airways plane which crashed in Gastineau Channel January 19, was found in the cockpit of the plane yesterday afternoon when two U. S. Coast Guard divers made their first contact with the plane, it was reported by officials pres- ent at the salvage operations. With ideal weather conditions prevailing for the first time since the accident, salvage operations were able to get underway yester- day .morning. Lines were placed on the tri- motored plane «which was resting on the bottom in about 100 feet of water. The, plane was surfaced (Continued op Page Six)