The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO.. 9263. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ———= OVIETS TIGHTEN GRIP ON 2 NAZI BASE President Orders Nation On 48-Hour Week EFFECTIVE AT ONCE IN 32 REGIONS Other EmplBTers Probably Must Observe Rule by March 31 WASHINGTON, Feb. 10— Presi- dent Roosevelt has ordered a 48- hour work week as part of the “ful- lest mobilization” of America to carry out 1943 war plans calling for a European invasion. The President left enforcement datées up to the War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, and immediately McNutt ordered the longer week effective in 32 areas where oritical labor shortages are threatening war work. These in- clnded San Diego, Portland and Se- attle. Applies To All Fowler Harper, assistant to the ‘War Manpower Commissioner, stat- ‘ed ‘that the order applies to all workers without exception, save only those normally employed on a part-time basis. He said the order. is mandatory and would be extended later to in- (Continued on Page Fiver The Washingfun Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON {Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Real seed for the Churchill-Roosevelt conference was & proposed visit with Stalin in Pay-As-You-Go Tax | Measure Issue for Varying Viewpoints Gandhi N0w t Of Three Articles On | ‘ | | | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—The ob- jections to the so-called Ruml “pay- | THOUSANDS | | | | | [ | | | { i OF NIPPONS AREKILLED Evacuation of Guadalcanal Is Complete - Jap Losses Given The Pay - As - You - Go Income . aking Fast; | [ Tax Plan.) ~ Is Confined Government Turned Down | Request for Uncondi- tional Release | BOMBAY., Feb. 10— Mahatma Gandhi is now on his twenty-first day of his fast in the Palace Aga !Khan Poona after the Government refused to grant unconditional re- lease from confinement there. Gandhi, who is 73, announced that he wili take only.fruit juice |and water during his fasting per- liod. Although he is behind barbed wire at the palace, he is still the | most important Indian. 'BASKETBALL MANAGERS T0 MEET FRIDAY | Siberia, which first sprouted lusz(hedMe fOI' Playofl TOUf- October. The idea was discussed between ! Willkie and Stalin during Willkie’s trip, then with FDR. Willkie! broached the idea after he found Stalin irritated over the failure of an outstanding American to come to Russia, despite the fact that he had sent his ex-Foreign Minister, Maxim Litvinoff, as Ambassador to Wiishington, and his present For- eign Minister Molotoff on a special migsion to Washington. Stalin also was irked at the de-’ lay in_establishing a second front and over the failure of up-to-date lend-lease airplanes to arrive. To ease the situation, Willkie suggest- ed a meeting place in Siberia or nament Between Six Teams Be Arranged Basketball Commissioner A. B. as-you-go” income tax plan, now a proposed law in the Capper- Carlson bill, are legitimate. Rep. Frank Carlson, Kansas Re- publican, in introducing the bill in the House, recognized them as such. “I believe,” he said, “every legis- lative proposal must stand on its !own merits. So far as I know, no bill has ever been introduced that was perfeet. It is only by construc- tive criticism that we adjust varying viewpoints on legislative proposals.” In the first place, putting the country on a pay-as-you-go income tax basis means either writing off 1942 income taxes completely or paying them this year or over a period of years to come. The Cap- per-Carlson bill proposes writing them off. Opponents insist that this will {mean a loss to the Treasury of | the approximate $7,600,000,000 which would have been collected on 1942 incomes. It is true that some day this sum will be lost. Mr. Carlson contends that it will be in appear- ance only. The loss will arise this way: If the Capper-Carlson bill is passed as proposed and under the old system you owed $500 for 1942 taxes and you should die the day after the bill became a law, you would |owe only on what you had earned in 1943. This would hold true for | taxpayers who now owe 1942 taxes (who die in 19844, '45, etc. In other| words, the Treasury loss will con- tinue as this tax generation dies. According to the experts, the loss | | resulting from switching to a pay- |as-you-go basis will average $200,- | Phillips today issued a call for man- ‘000.000 a year for 35 years. Propo- |agers of the six leading clubs in the } nents of the Capper-Carlson mea- | play of the Gastineau Channel Bas- | sure contend that this will be more ketball League to meet in the High | than offset by additional revenue iSchool next Friday night at 7:30 that will accrue from simpmied‘ o'clock. methods of collection and avoid-| The purpose of the meeting is to ance of losses resulting from over- | | make all plans for the playoff | burdening individuals with stng-! i schedule. ¢ |gering tax bills in lean-income' | The six leading teams to be in‘years. | the playoff are the Cheechakos, Of-' Another objection is administra-| ficers' Club, High School, Mala- ,mutes, Waacs and Moose. Managers |of these teams are those especially called for the meeting Friday night.' | (Continued o’niiirage Five) | Allied jungle fighters. 1Kunda bridge, northeast ADVANCE BASE IN SOUTH | PACIFIC, Feb. 10.—Maj. Gen. Al-| | exander Patch, Commander of the | American troops on Guadalcanal, | reports today that "Gupdalcana] is now completely in our hands rand |there is no vestige of any Japanese organized forces on the island.” | This is the announcement con- |tained in a message to Admiral |Halsey as released by Capt. Myles | jBrowumg. Halsey's Chief of Staff. 1 It is officially stated the Japa- nese evacuated the islands by de- stroyers or submarine but there is no indication of a m removal. | The evacuated Japanese included many high ranking officers. | There is no report as to the ‘number of Japs killed or captured | jor whether survivors, if any, are | trapped. It is announced that in la blot-out at Cape Esperance, many Japanese surrendered and consid- | erable booty, including medical stores, were seized Unofficially it is stated that from the American landing to February 9 the Jap loses were from 30,000 to 50,000, including thousands wiped out in landing operations. KILL JAPS IN POCKETS, NEW GUINEA JAP BASE Roosevelt and Churchill. Harold Gillam 1 |Allied Junégfighiers In-j AI K I S KA creasing Pressure on Enemy Forces ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 10— Increasing pressure on Jap ground forces is being exerted in New Guinea by ATTACKED Navy M aké?Announce- ment But Gives No De- fails as fo Results These fighters have wiped out two more pockets, one near the of Wau, Alaska. and the other southeast of Wau WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — Bomb- Later, Willkie reported this to Roosevelt, who liked the idea and went into more details as to where the meeting might take place. The plan petered out, partly be- cause Allied war chiefs wanted to discuss strategy near the North African atea, more centrally locat- ed for U. S. and British comman- ders; - partly . because Roosevelt watited to see U. 8. troops on the “th, North: Africa, partly be- BUCHANAN AND ROGERS RECEIVE SENTENCE TODAY Frederick Buchanan, who plead- ed guilty in the U. S. District Court | SENATE PASSES ~ INVESTIGATION - APPROPRIATION This afternoon, the Territorial Senate passed by a vote of 7 to 1, | priation of $2,500 for expenses in a resolution calling for an appro-| , connection with the lnvesummoni of the Territorial Department of ! |two weeks ago to four counts of | attacks on ti Japanese at ka is reported in a Navy com- Offigial reports state that more 7. :Lhan 100 Japs have been killed. | INCOMES LARGER ASK REPEAL nunique today Results of Aleutians aerial activity over however, not re- the are contributing to the delinquency of minors by sodomistic acts, was sen- tenced.in Court at 2 oclock this af- ternoon by Judge George F. Al- exander, to serve two years on each count, to run consecutively. Four additional counts included .‘Sflun,dlfl not want to get " away from home. ‘Sovid -have. flown to Cairo! P borthreg ;days if he had| ? Bk plane close to danger-| areas; and once in Af-| “tie ‘would havé been in a part|in the indictment were dismissed|tion With the exception of Senator A. P. Walker, who, by inference is of the world where assassinations by the Court on motion of the are commonplace and where many| United States Attorney. White Russian emigres, French| Also sentenced in Court today Fascists and Mohammedan fana-|was Hughes Rogers, who had plead- Labor under the administration of Michael Haas, former Commis- sioner. The resolution was engrossed and sent to the House. All members of | the Senate voted for the appropria- ilnvolved in the charges which Wal- {ter P. Sharpe, present Commis- sioner of Labor, has made concern- tics don’t love the Soviet. NOTE: The Secret Service, FBI and others concerned with the safety of the President were flatly ed guilty to white slavery on two}ths the previous administration of | counts. The sentence pronounced on one count to be followed im- mediately by a three year suspend- | by Judge Alexander was 15 months' opposed to his taking the 'trip, They experienced the most nervous|€d sentence on the second count. A three weeks of their lives during|third count was dismissed upon his absence. |motion of ‘the United States At- | torney. the labor department. The resolution had previously | been stricken from the resolution ' authorizing the legislative investi- | gation and was reintroduced this, Nor-| afternoon by Senator A. J. dale as a separate resolution. e THE RUSSIAN FRONT Though the Russians admitted Brig. Gen. Pat Hurley to the front | lines, they still have not revoked their ban on foreign military ob- servers. Their explanation — for what it's worth—is that they would have to admit Japanese observers as well, since they are still at peace with Japan. . . . Most impressive to Americans who have been any- (Continued on Page Four) FIRES SHOTS BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 10 — An assailant fired four shots at Ar- gentino’s Minister of Justice Rothe, as he was leaving his home by auto to attend a Cabinet meeting today. | Minister Rothe was cut slightly on| | one finger by a glass fragment. 3 [0nc bullet shattered a window of | The Pantellerian Strait, between of the official car and another Sicily and Tunisia, has the shallow- | punctured a tire. The assailant es-' est water in the Medlhmmnicaped. NARFORCE | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. — Film Star Robert Taylor has entered.the Naval Air Force as Lieutenant Junior. | D IN 1942 FOX BRAND Jesse Jones reports. Representative Willlam E. Egan | Payments boosted the commerce ntroduced a bill in the House this {index to 194.04, compared with the mcrning calling for a repeal of the {level of 100. for the previous five law dealing with blue fox farms |years. The increase was credited to snd brands in the Territory. The manufacturing wages and salaries, il was referred to the Committee Federal payrolls, and net income on Fisheries, Fish, Game and Ag- of farmers. riculture. R L STOCK QUOTATIONS G At propriate $2,500 for auditing the NEW YORK, Feb. 10. — CIOSing |, ..ots of all Territorial offices quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ., jnstitutonss immediately up- Istock today is 3%, American Can oy passage of the bill. Speedy ac- 79%, Anaconda 26 7/8, Betblehem (i, i5 expected on this one. Steel 59%, Commonwealth and 4 third bill was introduced by Southern Curtiss Wright 7%, gepresentative Stanley McCutch- General Motors 47%, International oon, an act that would require Harvester 587%, Kennecott 31%, Clerks of the Courts to furnish the New York Central 12%, Northern Registrar of Vital Statistics with Pacific 8%, United States Steel information showing any decrees of 51%, Pound $4.04. divorces or annulments granted by —_ the Court and to provide for com- DOW, JONES AVERAGES pensating the Clerks for services The following are today’s Dow, rendered in this connection. The Jones averages: industrials 127.01, bill was referred to the Judiciary rails 29.26, utilities 16.65. | Committee. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—Individ- {ual incomes soared to $113,824,000,- 000 last year, 23 percent greater than Another bill, introduced by the ways and Means Committee under Chairman Leo W. Rogge, would ap- When Conferees Met the Newsmen oBe Buried inthe Rugged Country He Pioneered; CONFIRMED | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 10.— | Harold Gillam, heroic Alaskan bush I'bilot who gave his life trying to * |save those of his passengers, will be buried in Fairbanks, in the | heart of the rugged country he loved and helped to build as a pi- joneer Northland flier, according to instructions received from the fam- ily. | and three children now in Texas at an unknown town. The body of the flier will be sent north at the first available sportation Meanwhile the four have besen transferred to the care |of the Sisters the Ketehikan Hospital from Coast Guard Hospital. Every physician in Ket- chikan and service doctors, joined in restoring them to health. The four are suffering greatly from shock, otherwise recovering well, the physicians said Woodsmen have left for Boca de Quadra Beach with snowshoes in an attempt to reach the plane wreckage on a precipitous cliff but said they would not attempt to bring Miss Susan Baxter's body out until later. the | PILOT BRADY TELLS OF INCIDENTS IN SEARCH FOR PLANE OF GILLAM Pilot Art Brady of the Morrison- Knudson Company, who helped search for the Harold Gillam plane after it crashed south of Ketchi- kan last month, revealed in Ju- neau last night that planes flew directly over the area which con- tained the camp of the survivors, proving that the area was thor- oughly combed in the weeks searching. The fact that the wreckage the plane was covered with snow and the absence of a fire at the camp kept searchers from spotting the survivors from the air Brady also said that the radio operator at the signal tower on An- nette Island, who talked to Gillam shortly before he went down, es- timated that the plane was 40 miles away. It turned out that the listance was 33 miles. of of > MERCHANDISE BROKERS ARRIVE ly JUNEAU H. B. Crewson and T. R. Curtis, merchandise brokers, arrived re- cently in Juneau and are staying jat the Gastineau Hotel. President Roosevelt was in jovial mood as he greeted the press with Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the lawn of the hotel where the leaders held their war strategy conferences in Casablanca. informality marked the press meeting with correspondents grouped on the ground around the feet of Great ADVANCEIN TUNISIA IS | ATTACKS ON BIG CENTERS: (ONTINUING ;Both Kharkov, Rostov Now - in Semi-circle with Pincers Closing MOSCOW, Feb. 10—8trong Rus- slan army forces are pouring through Belgorod Gap in the Ger- man defenses, north of Kharkov, the only point in the 200 mile long front where the invaders still hold the line from which they launched their 1042 offensive. Battlefront advices report the great upper Donets industrial city the Germans have held since Oc- tober, 1941, is thus menaced by the tightening semi-circle assault. The Red Army is roughly 40 miles from the limits of Kharkov to the north, east and south. At the same time the- Russians | announce the repulse of desperate German counter-attacks against the second semi-circle closing upon Rostov and against Kramatorsk. The wedge to the northwest, if car- ried south toward the Sea of Azov, might pinch off the whole Rostov defense force. ‘The Red Army reports the great- est gains in the smow piled Chalk Hill country between Kharkov and Orel where Kursk, and the import- ant rail junction of Belgorod fell after 48 hours of whirlwind assault. The Germans claim a tightening of Nazi defense in this sector and says that German divisions in “many places have not only stopped the |enemy advance, but have thrown the Soviets back to the eastward, inflicting heavy casualties on them.” Eighth Army Plans Knock- . ouf Blow - Fortresses ’Ickéibpmses . Gillam is survived by his mother| survivors | Raid Nazi Air Base | ! LONDON, Feb. 10—The British Eighth Army has resumed the ad- |vance in Tunisia in preparation for | a knockout blow to the remnants| of Rommel's African Corps as Al-i {lied bombers softened the enemy communications in the Mediter-| vanean war theatre. | The official announcement is, made by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander as he told the war cun‘esponden'.si at Cairo that the British Eighth Army has “Completely eliminated” | Governorship Requirements Objects fo —Proposal that Would Eliminate Car- petbaggers in North WASHINGTON, Feb. 10— Secre- the Axis forces east of the Tunisian frontier. The Ttalian communique broad- cast from Rome and picked up here described righting in the Tunisian area as “activity of patrol elements with massed motorized vehicles and concentrations of troops effectively hammering the Axis Air Force. This hammering is apparently timed with the Eighth Army ad- vance and sharp aerial blows on the Axis forces in Tunisia where bad weather continued to hinder rland operations at stategic points of the Axis supply lines on the Med- iterranean American flying fortresses have bombed the German air base at Kairquan, inland from Sousse in Tunisia Lt I'he Ttalian commuique admitted the raid was intensive and caused' many casualties. The Italian communique claims German fighters have downed 16 |tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes |today expressed opposition to the i proposed legislation to set up the |requirement that candidates for Alaskan Governorship must have /been a permanent resident at least three years. . The Secretary explained his po- |sition in a letter to Chairman Green of the House Territories Committee which Alaska Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond made pub- lic. The requirement, Secretary Ickes said limits the field of choice of candidates to a “comparatively small group and would eliminate many otherwise well qualified and suitable for the appointment.” BOMBED LONDON, Feb. 10—Rallway yards Allied planes over Tunisia, but the Allied communique said none of the raiding planes are missing. - D e AIR RAID LONDON, Feb. 10. — A German 2f Caen, in Northwestern France, were attacked this morning by Royal Air Fowce bombers, it was reported by the Berlin radio. It was reported that British Bombers bombed parts of Western Germany flying at great height last night. The report stated the damage was raider scored direct bomb hits this afternoon on a ecrowded depart- ment store in a south England town. Many bodies are feared pinned in the wreckage. An air raid alert was sounded in London at 5 o'clock this afternoon and the city’s anti-aircraft guns opened fire on German raiders who tried to crash the capital's defens- es. The “all clear” was sounded a short time later. negligible. DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 5:48 o'clock. e Dimout ends tomorrow ® (Thursday) at sunrise at 8:42 ® am. Dimout begins Thursday at sunset at 5:44 p.m. ® o0 00 00 00 00 ° o " ° . 0000 cvccen