The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9255. — ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— | AMERICANS START FINAL AFRICAN DRIVE Hitler’s Forces At Stalingrad Are Wipe CRACK NAZ! ARMIES GET FATALBLOW Soviets CapTuTé Field Mar- shal, 16 Generals in Great Attack LONDON, Feb. 1—Virtually com- plete destruction of Hitler's proud Stalingrad siege forces of 300,000 men, composed of two crack Nazi armies, is the Soviet’s triumphant | announcement in a special com-| munique. | One Field Marshal and 16 Gen-| erals have been captured. | Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus,| commander of the crushed German Sixth army and Fourth Tank Corps, | is the big shot taken captive. His promotion to Field Marshal was only announced today. | BERLIN ADMITS DEFEAT | NEW YORK, Feb. 1—In a Berlin| broadcast picked up here by the Associated Press, the German High Command announces the Southern group, the Sixth Army, under com-| (Continued on Page Three) Subs Sink Jap Ships On Pacilic; WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The Navy reported late last Saturday night that American submarines in the Pacific, have sunk six Japan- ese ships, including a destroyer, and damaged a seventh ship. The Washinéi(’:r;i Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | Mr. Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. Dear Thurman: Last November I wrote in thei column that the War Depanmem“ and certain other well-wishers who | didn't want you interfering with big business planned to kick you| upstairs to the court of appeals— give you Judge Rutledge’s place when they promoted him to the Supreme Court. You remember alsg that you wouldn't believe me. You called me a self-appointed judge-maker. I was no judge-maker, I was merely | trying to keep you from being a| judge. But now I see they've gone and done it. i They’'ve offered you $12,000 a year for life on the court of ap peals because you were the most relentless man in the entire ad- ministration when it came to buck- ing big business. Well, it may not be kind of me to write you a letter out in public this way where everyone can read it, but I've been in the habit of writing about you for five years| now, most of it good, only a little | bad, and I want to say now that you've gone more for the basic ele-| ments of America than anyone else in Washington. Bob Allen isn't around to say so, but I khow that goes for him, too. We think you've done a magnifi- cent job—in giving the small busi- ness man the right to compete with the big, in giving the housewife a chance to buy at lower prices, in! protecting the farmer on what he buys. . . . But why do you stop now? The fight is just beginning. You can't | | (Continued on Page Four) "Vifcrlory Tax Protests 1Steel 51'%, Pound $4.04. DIMOUT TIMES . Dimout begins Tuesday at ® sunset at 5:22 p.m. . Dimout ends Wednesday sunrise at 9:01 a. m. e ce o0 PRESIDENT BACKFROM LONG TRIIP. Roosevelt m;ges in Im-| mediately fo Carry Out Conference Plans WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Presi- dent Roosevelt returned to the White House last night to put into “active and concerted execution” plans for the 1943 campaigns which he and British Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill drafted at the his- toric unconditional surrender con-| ferences at Casabanca. Other problems also confronted the Chief Executive on his safe re-| turn from some 14,000 danger| fraught miles of travel, much of ! which was by the air. During his 23-day trip, the Presi- _dent covered the distance approx- imately equal to some of the highly publicised round the world flights "a few years ago. He was away from; {ke White House a full week longer than last fall, when he made a coast to coast tour to see the ship-| yards and other war plants. 1 May Talk Over Air After his trip, he addressed the nation by radio and conjecture is !whether he will again _go before the microphones and tell the people | about the epochal conference with the British Prime Minister, and things he observed going to Africa | and coming home. | Flying homeward, the President visited Liberia, the West African Republic founded by American ne- gro freedmen, and winged over Da- Holiday for Both Perhaps £ %, e When U. S. soldiers stationed in China take a nicksha ride it is as muci a holiday for Chinese villagers as it is for the doughboys. { Their progress is followed by throngs of curious Chinese. Above, | Yanks go for a sightseeing trip in rickshas. | WASHINGTON, Feb1—The only wholesale protests against the Vic- tory tax to reach the ears of Treas- ury officials comes from an unex- pected source; several church groups and denominations, A y against the tax Ping off place for an Axis attack | hurches upon the Americas, but now unde deduc- | Allied control. Speeds Over Atlantic Then the President sped across| New Gian Of Russian Fortific KNOX UNDER “AIR ATTACK, SOLOMONS BULLETIN, San Diego, Calif., Feb. 1.—Admiral Chester Ni- mitz, questioned during the Knox conference with the newspapers yesterday about the situation in the Aleutians said: “Operations are proceeding satisfactorily there and the threat in the Aleutians is di- minishing.” (Continued on Page Three) DlMouT GOES waaron, ri_n 1 The protest isn't HERE ToDAY the collection agencies for tions from the pay of pastors andI other employes. . Rev. Thomas Boorde, pastor of Pfadl(e Alefl IO Be Held the 'Anacostia Baptist church here,’ v . took up the matter at 7 0'Clock This * iiecentty, saving that “making the | church a collecting agency un- | nn s s | doubtedly violates the principle of ! |the separation of church and state.” | i [] i Dimout regulations for the c_ty 16idn inorted thet, Revid Ba GEd ‘ of Juneau go into effect “starting Baucum; vicé president. of the Bap- | ! Joday a't 5‘_15 Y otbek/in accirdm[r;ze {tist General Convention of Texas,| 4 | with orders from the Alaska = | declared: “It (the collection clause | N [ ll At 7 o'clock tonight a practice ,,equeratic control. This gives the oml“a lon alert will be held with members of | fagera] government the right to the Defense Council, Air Raid' heck our church finances.” | g Wardens and Auxiliary Police, only,| Treasury officials said they had! Police will' report to their regular on the matter. Off the record, one| Political Squabble stations and members of the De- opinion was expressed that the & fense Council are to report to the 'matter would have to go back to| in U. S. Senate City Hall, it was announced today Congress for an amendment to the| Civilian Defense. lection could be resorted to. WASHINGTON, Feb: 1—Edward The first all-clear signal will i o Tisnde i T vt B ' ¥, S n Al sound at 7:15 o'clock when nor- mpe' strike of 21,000 miners in nssu:ed g Ol P s gl L::Bmcf m&y b: rfi_sumeds,' :f“‘ the anthracite fields of Pennsyl-'p." American Minister to Australia members O e uxi {a i N i i & iliary olice | yania in protest against an mcreaseiwas certain, he is asking President trol to inspgct business_houses and strange cause to the average Amer- | (jon residences for ~compliance ~With jcan, but this isn't the only war-| pe nomination of the former dimout regx_xlaum:s until the second ying nation with strike troubles that | pemocratic National Committee- all-clear signal ®sounds at 8 o'- have nothing to do with hours of |man caused a storm of protest in clock when they will report any |wages. :Lhe Hanate A DR 4att ho wis Hall. returned from Australia tells of 2 ¢, pe made an excuse for a parti- strike that threatened to tie up san political debate in the Senate. most of the wartime coal produc- Flynn said his action is taken with- tion of our ally down under. out conference or consultation with W | President Roosevelt. Sources fo Treas. Depl. itself, but against making cl in a sermon Evening | In The Lutheran, church papex",i fenso Command, {of the bill) opens our, churches to: by R. E. Robertson, Director of tax law before other means of col-| J. Flynn said last night that al- nd Air Raid Wardens are to pa- jn union dues may seem to be & pogevelt to withdraw his nomina- violations to the Council at City A government official recently |not willing to permit his candidacy - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 1. — Closing (Continued on Page Two) of Alaska Juneau mine stock to- day is 4! American Can 78%, No Price Control 13 1 . e et en soutnern | ON Arficles Made . By Alaska Eskimos 15/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, Interna- WASHINGTON, Feb, 1.—As- tional Harvester 597, Kennecott 31, New York Central 12%, North- ern Pacific 8';, United States| | serting it is teo difficult to en- force, Price Administrator Prentiss Brown has abolished price regulations on Indian and Eskimo handicraft articles, all originating in Alaska, REQUEST GRANTED WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Presi- dent Roosevelt this afternoon told ‘Hdward J. Flynn he is complying ireluct.antly with the request to withdraw his nomination as U. S, Minister to Australia. The President wrote the |ing note: ! “Dear Ed: Reluctantly I am com- | plying with your request and I have withdrawn your nomination to the Senate. Come and see me DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ! Jones averages: industrials 125.86, rails 2955, “utilities 16.64. | I [{ Cantlm?ed on Pagé"l’hree) Kar, the long-feared potential step- |turn follow- & | | (By Associated Press) Presidents of the United States and Brazil, reaching an accord at a personal conference, agreed the Atlantic must be made “safe for all” and West Africa and Dakar must never again offer threat of a blockade or invasion against the Americas. On the way blanca, President ferred with President Vargas Brazil aboard a United States stroyer at Natal. At Rio de Janeiro, after his re- from the conference, Presi- Vargas asscrted complete ac- was reached in the war ef- between and this stirred fresh spec- home from Casa- Roosevelt con- of de- tions, This photo flashed by radio from Moscow to New York shows whi through the woods in & successfyl attack against the Nazis in the Velikiye Luki sector. These and other members of the Red Army drove the Germans beyond this key rail center on the central front and forced the Nazis back into Novo Sokolniki on the Leningrad-Kiev railway, sixty miles from the Latvian border. d Slalesr, Bratil Plan fo Make Atlantic Ocean Safe for Americas the two Allied Na- | |ulation whethe an even more active role in the present conflict, possibly, sending troops to the battlelines. A joint statement issued at the White House said: “It is the alm of Brazil and the United States to make the Atlantic Ocean safe for all. We are deeply grateful for almost the unanimous help our neighbors are giving to the great cause of Democracy throughout the { world.” The last sentence is believed ad- | dressed particularly to Argentina, {the only Latin-American nation declare with | which has failed to war or broken Axis. relations the PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 1—Sec- tetary of Navy Frank Knox, Ad- miral Chester Nomita and Admiral Fredevick Halsey were under Jap- anese air attacks twice within the past two weeks, they reported here after their return from a trip to the Solomons. The first air attack was a short e at Espiritisanto, New Hebrides, but the second was much heavier, ven hours duration on Guadal- canal, . ‘I think there are darn good prospeets of air attack on Tokyo,” Knox sald in answer to a question, bute where or how it will hit, he would mnot say, but he declared: “They had better get ready.” t Iron Tanks s Baffering afions of Enemy | MOSCOW, Feb. 1 | slans announce that iron giants which have smashed a 45-mile |front hole west of Voronezh are rolling the Nazis back steadily to- ward Kursk and the cnslaught has |not yet been checked | The tanks are described as big- |ger than anything the Nazis have |at the front. | Dispatches from the | clare that nine German | have been caught in a death |end the huge tanks are t | their way through enemy | cations over the bodies of soldiers. front de- Divisions trap fortifi- Nazi ?Finally};me i 'Alaska Bowling Champ for 1915 SPOKANE, Wash. Feb.1—-George “Kondike" Kosmos of Seattle, to- day became the 1915 bowling cham- pion of Alaska. The match for the title w; cd by a sore thumb 28 y g and settled today 'when Kosmos volled 1208 points in a six-game match to best out Chet “Sourdough’ Sheets, operator of an alley here who ran up 1049. Neither can remember today who had the sore thumb which stopped the match at a tie in Jack Roberts’ Recreation Hall in Anchorage, but this time the thumbs of both held out beautifully, even though they | had aged 28 years meanwhile. as halt- Ars ag ite-clad Russian soldiers advancing 30 KILLED Brazil might take| INSEATTLE | BY FLAMES Sanitarium Is Turned Info Death Trap for Aged Patients SEATTLE, Feb. 1—The privately- | operated suburban Lake Forest San- litarium for ailing invalids, built around the amework of a one- time log house, became a flaming death trap today for an estimated | 30 or 31 vietims. After hours of probing in the charred and smoking ruins, Sheriff Harlan Callahan, reported five hours after the rapidly spreading flames {had turned the convalescent home [into a holocaust that 18 of the 49 jmnienm had reached or had been | carried to safety. He said that 28 bodies, many charred beyond recognition were taken from the smouldering ruins. Match Started It M. R. Baird, furnace re- ¥ man employed to connect a |heater with an outside tank, re- |lated that the head of a match flew off when he lit it, and started the conflagration. He had finished the job when he struck the match, i he said. The Rus- | Later, The sanitarium is located about eight miles north of Seattle’s city | 1imits. Many of the patients were draw- ing old age pensions from the state, | end most were bedridden or feeble | in health, A few were mental pa-; tients German attack which the led with 52-ton tanks, strous new Mark Sixths. Two were rescued, it was report-| ed, and were in hospitals. They were £0 critically burned they were not expected to live. Three others suf-| fered eritical burns to a lesser de-| gree than others. Some were suf- fering from shock and smoke. Gruesome Sight The tragic scene, after the fire had run its course, was & gruesome cight, one of stark horror. Most of the walls were still upright, but half of the roof was burned away, de- spite the valiant effort of volun- teer firemen who were summoned from miles around as they were sit- ting down to dinner. ! The fire broke out shortly after, noon yesterday. The burned corpses, were plainly visible on the broken and littesed metal beds 12 Nai fiil;lers Are Shot Down in Raid hv Fortresses LONDON, Feb. 1-—Flying Fort- resses ang Liberators destroyed 22 German fighters in the raid se eral days ago on the Wilhelm- shaven submarine base and the in- dustrial center of Emden. d Out ATTACKING FROMTHREE POSITIONS ‘;Brilish Repulsé Nazi Mon- ster Tanks-52-ton Machines LONDON, Feb 1. — American troops are stabbing at German po- sitions in three central Tunisian sectors in aerially screened opera- tions -which may lead to the long awaited general offensive and the final battle of North Africa. British forces in the Roban area to the north met and repulsed a Nazis the mon- The new tanks are shielded by seven-inch thick armor and mount 88-millimeter guns. The British wrecked two of the Mark Sixths and four lighter Nazi tanks. Eighth Army Moves Meanwhile, the British Eighth Army is reported to be moving westward again, and 4s less than 35 miles from the frontier of Tuni- sla. The main mass of the Eighth Army is following patrols which already have speared into the French protectorate, further shortening the corridor left to Rommel and Von Arnim. At the same time, American and British planes supported ground iroops in the fighting zones and smashed anew at Bizerte and Gabes, ranging also across the Me- diterranean to pound the naval base of Messina, Sicily, and points within Italy, itself. .A spokesman for Allied ‘head- juarters in North Africa told of the three American attacks: Three Attacks One to continue the effort fo regain Faid Pass 60 miles west of 3fax. The second . deflected north . igainst Maknassy, German-held vail town 33 miles south of the Sulf of Gabes. The third directed west against the same city. A late communique from Cairo reported the occupation by the Al- lies of Port Zuara, 65 miles west of Tripoli. MOVING TO INVESTIGATE LABOR DEPT. Infroduce Resolufion for Appointing Special Committee ‘The first step was taken in the Senate this afternoon for a sweep- ing investigation of the Territorial Department of Labor under former Commissioner Michael J. Haas. Senator Edward D. Coffey, after conferring with Attorney General “nry Roden, introduced a Senate Concurrent Resolution calling _ for wce appointment of a special Com- mmittee of Investigation to look into the charges made in a supplement- ary report issued by the new Com- missioner of Labor, Walter P. Sharpe. Referred to. Committee President O. D. Cochran referred (Continued on Page Three) e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Saturday, Jan. 30: Maximum 25, minimum 19. Precipitation, .02. Temp. Sunday, Jan. 31: Maximum 33, minimum 22. Precipitation .73 Snow depth 6 in. e e 0 0 0 0 0 o eecseev e ee0ccv0s0ese