The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., 9262. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS ] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JAP FORCES EVACUATE GUADALCANAL Smash Both Ends Axis’ Africa Supply Bases LONG-RANGE AIR BLOWS ARE SCORED British Submarine Sinks; Four Ships Off lfal- ian Coast LONDON, Feb. 9.—The long range Allied aerial offensive in North Africa kept up yesterday's activities and powerful blows were struck at both ends of the Axis supply line across the mid-Medi- terranean. A British submarine is reported to have sunk four ships off the | Italian west coast. | With the Tunisian land front, still bogged down from the week- end rain, long range bombers of the Middle East Command pound- ed Messina at daylight and bomb- ers of Eisenhower's Command set two ships afire in the harbor at Sousse. Axis planes also were set afire at Gabes airdrome as Am- erican warplanes again provided the fighting power. | The big Liberators blanketed the | wattrfront at Messina with bomb | bursts, scoring hits on the port (Continued on Page "Three) 1 The Washingtdn; Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) } with the conning tower showing. WASHINGTON.—Here are some | of the backstage factors faced by ' Roosevelt and Churchill in work- | ing ‘6ut a solution to the North African political mess. The inside story goes back to the days before the landing of American troops, when all the top political leaders in North Africa kriew that an American expedition was coming. The Berlin radio had | heralded this weeks before, and when the first Allied convoy ar-! rived at Gibraltar to wait for an- other, the Nazis even broadcast the name of every ship. But the Nazis and ¢he high- ranking French made one mistake. They never dreamed that British and U. S. ships would dare come inside the Mediterranean and land at Algiers. They thought the land- ings Would be only at Casablanca and Dakar. So, to meet that at- tack, Gen. Nogues shifted his troops to Casablanca. That was why the fighting was stiff around Casablanca, and why Algiers and neighboring ports sur- rendered immediately. That was also why Admiral Darlan was taken by surprise at Algiers. He| never ‘dreamed we would land that far west. Immediately after the landing, u.; 15 . Minister Robert. Murphy pulled his trump card, Gen. Hon-| "y is 5 proposed amendment to oré_Giraud, who appealed to all iy, Consr.ixp:mgp giving the women Frefiehimen t0 lay down their arms.|,r the United States equal rights However, Gen. Giraud proved not|yith men. to be such a trump card after all.| Though it is not a new proposal, His appeal. fell flat. it was introduced this year with b 4 the biggest Congressional support DARLAN INTERVENES it has ever had—40 representatives One day later, Admiral Darlan,!|introduced it in the House and then confined to his quarters by 21 Senators will sponsor its intro- an American guard, sent word that|duction in the Senate. It is offered he wanted to see Gen. Eisenhower. | as a corollary to the 19th amend- When Eisenhower arrived, accom- ment (which gave women the vote) panied by Bob Murphy, Darlan, and is simply phrased in 18 words: pointing to the continued fighting, | “Men and women shall have equal said: | rights throughout the United States “I can stop all this.” land every place subject to its jur- He explained that aged Marshal isdiction.” Petain had given him authority,| The amendment has r?med legal if the United States staged more questions which have dmdod_uw than a mere commando raid, opinion of women's organizations. throw French North Africa against B2CKIng it strongly are the Na- the Nazis. Darlan attached certain LONal Woman's Party, which spon- conditions, among them the pro- sored it, the National Federation o T Bl e = vision that he be High Commis- o "ol 0 RSN sioner of North Africa. These,! A organizations. Opposing it are the Eisenhower and Murphy accepted, young Women's. Christian Assocla. and cabled Washington. tion, the National League of Wo- When Gen. Marshall and Admiral men Voters, and various other or- Leahy received the cable, they re- ganizations and labor groups. AID WOMEN IS NOW UP 'Equal RighEEiII Rouses Controversy-Pros and Cons Are Given By ADELAIDE KERR AP Feature Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — The |first legislative measure laid before |the 78th Congress is one of vital importance to every woman in the | world. rContinued on Page mf— | (Continued on Page Two) How ”'(apper-(arlson Pay-As-You-GoTax - Plan Would Work Out MEASURETO NAZI SEA WOLF GOEs T0 DooM P ASS BILL | — HERE IS THE END of a Nazi U-boat, one of a wolf pack which attacked a convoy from U, 8. to Britain. At top, the sub is making a crash dive, Center, a bomb burst shows a direct hit. Below is shown the oil slick that marks the end of the sea prowler. | (Second of Three Articles On- The- Pay- As- You- Go In- come Tax Tax Plan) By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — There |is nothing complicated about the Capper Carlson pay-as-you-go tax I bill. In its present stage it is merely a proposal and even before it reach- |es the floor of the House or Senate |undoubtedly will have many revi- sions, some of which might compli- cate it. | At present, however, it is sim- |ply this. Instead of paying your 1942 income tax on the return blanks now released, you will fill out this return as usual and that will be your “yardstick” for mak- ing payments (nine of them start- ing March 15). There would be no change in the income tax rates, \the Victory tax or anything else. Then next year, when you made out your 1944 “return,” you ‘would balance off your | ments” either by paying into the Treasury any deficiency or receiv- 'ing from the Treasury any surplus lexisting because of the difference between what income you computed your tentative tax on and what you actually earned. At the same time, you would be computing the basis for your ten- tative payments in 1944. If you know or have reason to believe that your income will change during the year, this can be provided for simply by explain- ing and estimating your income for the current year. 4 If your marital status changes during the year or your depen- dents increase or decrease, you report to your collector of inter- nal revenue, make out a revised income report and from that time start paying on the new basis. If you die during the year, your income tax liability is paid in- full (there could be a fraction of a month’s payments due) and there is no drain on your estate. If you lose your job or are demoted, your (Continued on Pu{(; Fi\'e) “tentative pay-' & C FORLABOR DEPT. PROBE Investigating Committee s | .. @ Set Up-Haas Visits ‘ States The House this morning passed | the Senate resolution calling for a sweeping investigation of the Tex- | ritorial Department of Labor as! amended by the Senate to provide that the investigating committee consist of the judiciary commiitees of both houses. The two committees, consisting of four members from each house, must now have a joint meeting to | elect a chairman and proceed with the investigation. The resolution was drawn up after Commissioner of Labor Wal- ter Sharpe issued a report to the Senate charging former Commis- sioner Michael J. Haas with a var- lety of counts involving alleged misconduct, irregularity and fraud, and also involving Senmator A. P. Walker, former employee of the Department, by inference. Specific Charges Specific charges include destruc- tion of files, using the facilities of the offige to advance personal and political interests. Before the passage of the reso- lution in the House, Rep. Stanley McCutcheon, Chairman of the! House Judiciary Committee, de- clined to serve on the committee and asked that he be allowed to| withdraw. Unanimous consent was given to his request. Speaker James V. Davis then asked the Committee on Commit- tees to appoint a member to re- T o F I N | S !place McCutcheon. The Committee | conferred during a recess and chose Rep. Harvey J. Smith, the House | approving the appointment. : 1 Daysin | The committee that will make the investigation thus will consist of the following legislators: g e eomn, mamar PETManent Job Scheduled Nordale, N. R. Walker, Edward D.| for Comp|efi0n Coffey; Representatives Smith, Jo- | seph W. Kehoe, Chester A. Roust| ‘I’his Year and John J. O'Shea Committee’s Duties It will be this committee’s duty| WASHINTON, Feb. 9.—Comple- |tion of the permanent phase of the | Alaska-Canada highway during the present year is the goal set by the Public Roads Administration. This aim was disclosed today in hearing of the House Appropria- [tions Subcommittee by Commis- sioner MacDonald, during a confer- on the PRA's appropriation " (Continued on Pa;c Two) AUDITOR'S REPORT IS CRITICAL Describes Affitude of Of-| ficers in” Incurring Obligations In a report issued to members of the Territorial Legislature to- day, Auditor Frank A. Boyle minc- es few words in criticizing the at- titude of Territorial officials and employees which he was confront- ed with in examining and paying| V¢ the road formally on accounts during the last biennium. ;xc;:er o | Mr. Boyle states that the “war MY he: conkrentors A | men are remaining on the road ence oill, The story of the race to com- plete last r nearly 1,632 miles f pioneer road with camps, land- field phone lines and umber camps could be read be- ween the lines of the factual re- port by the engineers. MacDonald described the abrupt ating program toward the end of last year so contractors’ organiza- tions could be diverted for the construction of the pioneer Army road to assure completion by the end of 1942, The Commissioner said “the as- |sistance thus offered was instru- No- termination of the smoothly-oper- | mental in permitting the Army to| ol ) may have been responsible for the attitude.” Says the Auditor in his report : “Heretofore it was generally un- derstood that an obligation could not be incurred unless there was a valid reason for it, based on the following : Reasons | “First, that there were sufficient funds in the treasury; second, that the Legislature made an appropria- ition on the subject; third, that the officer had legal authority to 'incur the obligation. “During the past biennium very| little attention was paid to the ‘thl to incur the oblization, and ;the average person seemed tothink (Continued on Page Two) throughout the winter, he said, to perform such work for the Army |as requires the use of skilled work- | men. Others are establishing camps for next season’s operations, haul- ing supplies, clearing right-of- |ways, and performing other inci- dental work to insure @ resump- tion of operations on a major scale arly this spring. e — BABY FOR MARTINS Mr. and Mrs. Duane Martin are the parents of a baby girl at 5 o'clock this morning in St. Ann’s dospital. The new arrival tipped the scales at seven pounds and cleven ounces. e — : BUY DEFENSE BONDS HITLER’S SOLDIERS PIND the going tough as they retreat before the savagely striking Russian troops. Not only do they have to contend with the hard-fighting Red Army, but icy winds and snow also chop doyvn their forces. This photo, obtained from London through neutral sources, shows a number of the retreating Nazis as they hide behind a snowdrift to escape the cutting winds sweeping across the Russian steppes. | fiéii&orl, Gebo Lay | i Al ly Waler; | Last Ads of Gillam | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 9.-- | How Robert Gebo and Dewey Metz- | | dorf, survivors of the Harold Gil- lam plane crash, lay in a lean-to | | without fire for seven days while | |& torrent of icy water from thaw- ing snows ran under and around them, is told by Chief Warrant Of- ficer Arthur Cook, Coast Guards- ! man who led the first rescue party to the mountain valley camp. “Everybody bawled like babies when wg reached the camp and |found those brave men 'lying in | the middle of an icy stream,” said | { Cook. | |1 wept, Gebo wept, Metzdorf wept and all of my crew went! blubbering. We couldn’t help it.” | Men Very Weak | | Metzdorf told the rescuers: “We | have been lying here too weak to build a fire since it went out so {many days ago, I've forgotten. !When the plane flew over, that |{gave me strength to get out of the lean-to and wave to the pilot. | If he had not dipped his wings as a signal that he saw us, T would | 1ot have had strength to make it | back to Gebo's side.” i When Cook handed Gebo and Metzdorf a cupful of hot broth, | Gebo said: “You never know what ' a fire means, what heat means,| until you have been through some- thing like this and I hope you |never do. We have not had a fire and we are sopping wet.” | Gebo choked on the first sip of the. broth and began to weep. | Clothing Frozen Cook , said: “These men’s cloth- ing were. frozen stiff except in! places where a steady stream of water was running around their hips and shoulders.” Cook said ten of the young Coast Guardsmen were hospitalized, five with sprained ankles, four with frost bitten feet and one with | frozen feet. The Coast Guard Commandant praised the Coast Guardsmen, vol- unteer civilians, woodsmen and Al- aska Territorial Guardsmen for their great achievement in bring- ing the two survivors down to the | beach from the camp. They ex- hibited the same courage as did the survivors “and that 1is the greatest comparison anybody could ever make.” Survivers Improving The four survivors, Gebo, Me dorf, Cutting and Tippits are * sponding well enough to treatment,” said the attending physician Metzdort is strong enough to take a shower by himself.” | W. M. “Red” Wilkins, licensed (Continued on }}1&? Five) 'NI}ZIS DUCK WINDS BEHIND RUSSIAN SNOWDRIFTS : 1!—KNOX SAYS ~ NIPPONSIN ~ SNEAK OUT Navy Head B;tiares Enemy Resistance Ceases on | . Big Solomon Island (By Associated Press) In Washington today, Secretary |of Navy Frank Knox, said all en- !emy resistance on Guadalcanal Is- |land has “apparently ceased.” He | qualified this statement however by saying that there may be a few Jap groups left and added that the ap- parent end aof the six months’' campaign on Guadalcanal has plac- ed the ,American forces “within striking distance of some of the meost important bases of the Jap- unese.” Eecretary Knox talked to the | néwsmen at a conference shortly after a Berlin broadcast, picked up |'n Washington, announced that the | Japanese Imperial Headquarters re- ported the withdrawal of the Jap- | anese forces on Guadalcanal. | The Berlin broadcast also told of the evacuation of the Japs from the Buna area where the United States reported final annihilation of the 15000 man Jap force was accomplished some three weeks ago. KURSK IS sucH T v'HS Japs have evacuated the OsnduI» Far wide spread recent sea and air ac- Point on Rail Link ™" " smashed anew at the sagging Ger- Bolo SE(IOR point on the Moscow-Crimea rail also the official communiques tell several directions and overwhelm- )Area vinua"y Des'royed_ One dispatch says the Russians Advance Russian units have pur- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Although not admitting the m”‘Dobo in the northwestern Aroe Is- attacks on a broad front in the pyrping and in ruins, it was re- cast from Berlin says: “In a fierce gnd Australian fliers in American merically and far superior enemy force—one which also destroyed @& D - The bombers also took a crack at 's SHOT Dowu Ground activity was limited to mall ship, torpedoed and sunk off Duich Nazi Legion Com- T o o out. directly from Tokyo, but he sald he “didn't doubt the truth the i canal area.” R d A F Sf ‘The Navy Secretary also said the rces Jiorm e rmy 0 § vity in the Solomons might have and Take Enemy Anchor Ibeen a “demonstration to cover | | e The Russifn Red Army today man lines in three sectors after storming Kursk, the enemy anchor link. ! Dispatches from the front and of the Red Army sweeping onto L the German citadel of Kursk from | ST & ing the garrison that has held | 7 Kursk since November 11, 1041. Town s Bummg' Prac- found Kursk an “enormoys ceme- ! "(a"y in Ruins tery.” | £ sued the fleeing Germans west a"d‘AUSTRALIA, Feb. 9—Allied bomb- south of Kursk, lers virtually destroyed Jap-occupied of Kursk itself, the German radio j,n4s 500 miles north of Darwin, reports the Russians have renewed |joqying three-fourths of the town Kursk sector ,ported today. The official communique broad-| The attack, carried out by Dutch defensive battle, our units are bombers, was part of a sweep by standing their ground against nu-|Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air in most unfavorable weather con- 2,000-ton ship off Buin in the nerth= ditions.” !ern Solomons. Jap points on New Guinea and New | Britain. ‘pnzrol activity on New Guinea. The v Allies announced the loss of a i |the Australian east coast. Survivors were rescued. D mander Reported Killed Relief of Alaska Says Berlin Report | Indigents Costs LONDON, Feb. 9 — Lieut. Gen. Heindrik Syffardt, 70, Commander szs m in 1’“ i of the Dutch Nazi Legion, was fa- v tally wounded by revolver bullets WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-— Relief in front of his home last Friday, »f indigents in Alaska will cost the the Aneta News Agency says, quot- United Stat2s $25,000 in 1944. A re- ing a broadcast from the German <uction of 35000 has been appyo- controlled The Netherlands Radio vriated for 1943. The broadcast said he died Sat- e — jurday but did not specify where he ® 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 lived but Netherlanders in London DIMOUT TIMES said his last known residence was at % r—— The Hague Dimout begins tonight The brogdcast gave no indication at 5:39 o'clock. as to the identity of the assassin, @ Dimout ends Aneta said. ® (Wednesday) at NBTRRTIe o g s ® 844 am. As early as May, 1917, in World ® Dimout begins Wednesday War I, there were mutinous out-|/® at sunset at 5:42 pm. breaks in the German Navy, 0 00 00000000 | tomorrow sunrise at ®se0c0vcesceoe