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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9264. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT® —_= ALLIED PLANES MAKE SMASH, NO. AFRICA Red Army Encirc Mikado Is Big Liar; Japs Didn't Evacuate RUSSIANS CONTINUE NEW ATTACKS ARE RAGING Island; They Perished MOVING ON INSOLOMONS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 11—Gen. Doug- las MacArthur's communique to- main Jap force was encountered in the Wau area, some 35 mies west »f Salamaua, and forced back for General Assaulf Front Now day virtually called Japan's Mikado a liar, saying Gen. Tomatari Horii and his army did not evacuate the Buna area in New Guinea at the end of January as the Japanese claimed but “perished.” This pointed commentary is in- cluded in today's communique a- long with the fresh Allied proud victory on the approaches to Sal- amaua and Lae, next Jap bases of importance since the victory at Buna sealed the triumph for the Allies on the Papuan Peninsula. The communique announced the Big Debt to Sertle With Japs six miles, after which our artillery continued to pour it on the re- treating enemy. MacArthur said “the necessity for such subterfuge as the Japanese claim in the name of the Emperor, himself, represents a moral defeat, even greater perhaps than the phy- |sical one they ‘suffered.” In driving the Japs back, an Al- lied spokesman said, 125 more of the enemy were slain, raising to 500 the number of Japs killed in recent weeks | The | Extends 50 Miles-More Places Are Capfured BULLETIN—London, Feb. 11. —The Stockholm correspondent of the London Daily Express reported the Germans' evacua- tion of Kharkov and said Ber- lin declared “the Russians are increasing the pressure consid- erably with the obvious inten- tion of encircling Kharkov.” The city is being shelled heavily, indicating that the Russians are much nearer tiian reported officially — perhaps only six to ten miles away, the correspondent said, without giv- ing the source of his informa- tion. NEW 50-MILE FRONT MOSCOW, Feb. 11.--By the cap- [ture of settlements between {gorod and Chuguyen, the Red | Army has now formed a 50-mile |agsault front just east of Kharkcv land fighting is reported mounting {in other sections dn souihern Rus- isia. 22 and | capture of Chuguyen, miles southeast of 'Kharkov Volchansk, 36 miles northeast, is wsonounced by the Russians early today, along with the seizure of Pechenegri, 12 miles northeast of | Chuguyen. | | The newspaper Red Star said furious battles occurred at Chugi- |yen and Volchansk. MERE IS oné fellow who has a big debt to settle with those Japs. He is Pvt. Henry G. Vallet, Chinese-American stationed at the Tyn- dall field, Florida, gunnery school. Vallet’s mother is feared dead in Jap-occupiéd land. . His son, missing in action in China, also is feared Keep Advancing “ An official dispatch to the news- paper Pravda said the Red Army, after taking the two towns, con- tinued to advance. ‘The Germans attempted to hold the Volchansk sector with a force dead. His daughter committed suicide after she was raped by Jap (of 80 tanks and two regiments of soldiers. His three grandchildren were bayoneted to death by the invaders. ~ Vallet is 50 but because of this debt and his value as an intngreu_r, authorities overlooked his age and permitted him to join. Efie Waéhington Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | For a long tine, domestic poli- [tical resentment has increased against Chiang Kai-shek because his policy of U. S. friendship has | netted no real returns. Recently | Irumors of these seniiments have |grown to an ominous rumble. The | powerful Governor of Yunnan Pro- | vince in the South is at odds with | WASHINGTON. —In the swank |Chiang. So is the Governor of | new U. S. Public Health Building, |Szechwan. In the Northwest, the | now vacated by yellow fever and |leader of the Mohammedans s | bubonic plague experts to house |grousing against Chiang’s leader- | the Allled chiefs of staff, is a|ship. i small office occupied by Maj. Gen. | They claim he is ruled by his| Chu Shik-ming, Chinese military |“American” family. They are not, attache. {impressed with the fact that the | It is spick and span, the neatest Soong sisters were graduated from | office in the building. This is part- |Wesleyan or Wellesley, They don't; Iy because it is almost empty. Ne|care how popular the Soongs are one comes in, no one gocs out. In- (With the American public. They side sits a stenographer. jonly know that the Soongs have| “I am grateful to the United failed to produce. The munitions States for giving me this nice of-|aren’t flowing to China. fice,” ‘Gen. Ch1 confides tb iriends,i The Chinese don't realize the dif- “and L also. appreciate this ctenographer. But I don't like mi(roms~Russla and Africa. go to my office, for I don't want;also don’t realize that Madame people to see how little work Ilchiang Kai-shek, confined to an bave to do. {American hospital, has not been “At first it embarrassed me ' to able to see the President. They only have the stenographer sit there |know that China has fought nearly voing nothing. But now I keep her|six long years with little help in busy clipping newspaper articles sight. So they take it out on Chi- ahout China.” (ang Kai-shek, his American-edu- That empty office illustrates cated wife and her sisters. what the Chinese call our empty- : NOTE: Some high-placed Chin- handed war policy toward China.|lese hint that if Chiang Kai-shek They It also gives one key to the mys- J“had left China for the Roosevelt- | tery of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- |Churchill meeting, political rivals shek’s refusal to join the Roose- |would have moved into the Gen- velt-Churchill conference. |'eralissimo’s palace before he got Gen. Chu tells friends that he back. never expected to sit at the meet-| | ings of the top British and Ameri- | can strategists in Washington. But| he did expect to participate in the meetings of lesser lights, “including conferences to decide on allocation of munitions. However, only door open to the Chinese is the Council\plm‘_ St Vbeks Ditobe - And Wone ;folge‘al;:flge&namgifsfitde;pz;:e |dered 'if there was a connection. tative, and conducted more or less Retdiond Shermah VPR - vieo like a tea-party. i FORD'S BROTHER-IN-LAW When Edsel Ford’s brother-in-law Ernest C. Kanzler packed his bags ‘Continued on Page Four) nice | ficulties of supplying two vital war ! |infantry but large Soviet tanks led the attack, split the defenders’ anks and routed the infantry. | Below Belgorod, the Russians are | teday reported advancing down the Kharkov highway. The Russians are also reported to have made new landings south- west of Novorossisk, the Black Sea aval base. HERSHEY IN OPPOSITION, DRAFTBILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 — Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey says he op- poses legislation which will require deferment to men with chilldren luntil all single men and married men without children are drafted. Hershey told the House Military Committee today: “I feel it would be unwise to enact this legisla- |tion in its present form. It will render the administration of the Selective Service very difficult, es- pecially procurement in the next eight or nine months or even in the next two or three months. We must give more weight to what the re- gistrant is doing rather than re- lation that he has dependents.” I M. C. ANDERSON - IS HERE ON WAY | I. M. C. Anderson, Area Super- visor of the Farm Security Ad- |the ‘other day and left the War ministration, arrived this week in | Production Board, friends recalled Juneau from the south in connec-|inated by the President to be As- |a dignificant incident which took tion with his position and is here Sociate Justice of the United States his Court of Appeals of the District awaiting transportation to | headquarters in Anchorage. Mr. Anderson was formerly Bel- | | 10 HEADOUARIERSi in Associate Guadalcanal Now Moped{ ' Up-Jap Positions on | Kiska Are Bombed WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—All or-| ganized Japanese resistance has been halted on Guadalcanal and| U. S. planes are now attacking en-| emy bases in other parts of the| South Pacific, the Navy commun- | ique states. | Today's communique also |(~llsg of new bombings of Jap positions | on Kiska Island, of the Aleutian| group, Alaska saying that “on Feb-| ruary 10 (Wednesday) in the morn- | ing, U. 8. heavy medium bombers with fighter escort, bombed Jap| positions on Kiska and many hits were scored on enemy installations| laccording to the observors. A single | |enemy float type of plane uuuvkr*d; U. S. surface units in the western Aleutians but no damage was suf- | fered.” | Stimson Talks | Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- | cen, at a conference this after- reon with the newsmen, said the | fla; a force of the enemy caught victory over the Japs on Guadal- | lcanal was hastened by :lm])hlbian; cperations. The Army forces moved | ound the island under Naval e: cort and a landing was made near the northwest tip of the island and have st d marching overland to on a narrow strip of a beach about | 15 miles long. How the enemy was left there is not stated. 4,000 Japs Killed Lieut. Gen. Harmon, Commander of all of the Army forces under Ad- miral Halsey in the South Pacific, reports that during the past weeks of January, two Army Divisions on Guadalcanal killed 4,000 Japs and tock 105 prisoners, losing only 139 killed and 39 wounded and five missing. 4 SURVIVORS PLANE CRASH RECOVERING fFate Long Comeback How- ever-Two Men Lose Much Weight KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb, 11— |Robert Gebo and Dewey Metzdorf remain in a Ketchikan Hospital {while Percy Cutting and Joseph | Tippits chafe impatiently to be al- !lowed to be up and around. | Doctors attending the four sur- !vivors of the Harold Gillam plane lecrash said their patients face a |long comeback by careful dieting and a prolonged rest before they will regain normal condition. | Metzdorf, who weighed 220 pounds on January 5, the day of the |crash. is now down to 160 pounds. Gebo dropped *from 190 pounds {to 140 pounds. 2 Meanwhile the woodsmen Coast Guardsmen attempting |reach the plane wreckage have been (forced to halt in the valley camp land await better conditions before |starting out again. i PREL < 0 LA and MOVEDUP WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — Thur- !man Arnold, Assistant Attorney |General in charge of the anti- trust prosecutions, was today nom- |of Columbia to take the place of Chief Justice Rutledge charge of the Agricultural Experi- now on the Supreme Court of the ment Station in Fairbanks, |United States. i to .‘ 3 : . i President Roosevelt salutes the colors as he 1 Prime Minister Winston Churchill. between conferences with Oran Lass of Kar and unidentified WEDS YANK IN ENG iews U. S. troops in LAND—Actress Carole Landis Kitchen Census Wi Be Taken by Best of Government's Bureaus By JACK STINNETT 11 — Not column sug- governmeni Bureau informa- the big | WASHINGTON, Feb weeks ago, thi: that wartime use the Census in assembling statis tion on which to bs decisions that affect our daily lives It would be presumptuou say t that had anything to do with 0. P. A. decision to place jon-wide sampling of food con- iption, prices, shortages, etc., in lap of the Census Burcau It however, so far as 1 khow, the time that any war agency has called on Census for anything more many ted gencies e to than the now stale facts and figures that grew out of the 1940 enumer- ation. The Census Bureau is one of the most efficient agencies of our gov- rnment. Once every ten yes ounts a lot more than noses. The {atistical data it gathers is the pringboard for much of the gov- nmental, cultural, medical, legls- tive and business activities in the ountry. What most people don’t know is it t that when all decennial no ters and tabulators have gone Census maintaifis a staff of sia tical wizards that can tell you day to day almost exactly where the center of population is birth rate is doing. what to last year's spinach tate probably will have ! illiterates in 1959, and what | of the Joads. On a few weeks undoubtedly could s the wh of mac would give a truer samj nation’s woes and wan the polls put togethe Census has been cientifically for years That’s why it’s good news correspondent that OPA has culled upen them to produce the “War e Food Diary.” Census is going counties in 45 state ct- 000 “representative familic and acking the “lady of the house to keep day-to-day of food purchases, consumption, prices ete home m notic cause ampling to thi a record (Continued on Page Five) With him in the jeep are the driver, Sgt. and (left to right in rear) Maj. Gen. Ernest Harmon, Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark les Kharkov; Still Advance FDR Reviews U. §. Troops i DAY, NIGHT POUNDINGS - ARE STRUCK :ShipsSunk; Concentrations | Strafed, Bases Are Air Raided LONDON, Feb, 11 — Already 20 miles inside Southern Tunisia, the British Eighth Army is reported rolling toward the fortified Mareth |'ine while the British First armies have extended the Western Tuni- sian holding front to relieve the weary French who are fo be ve- armed for the big push. i In the alr, Allled planes east |and west of Malta, sank one ship and left another sinking off the Tunisian coast, strafed Axis troop concentrations, and pounded Tra- pani by night, then the force was up early today and delivered an- other hard daylight rald on the €iclllan seaplane and naval base at Palmero. A Cairo commubique announ- ces that Montgomery's forces are engaging Rommel's rear guards near Ben Gardane and indicated ‘be Eighth Army's ne wsweep has {teen carried, forward more than 30 miles of its striking base at ex- treme western Lybia. | The full extent of. the engage- ment is near Ben Girdane, 29 miles ‘nside Tunisia Sharp artillery duels are pre- |sumed to be taking place with | Rommel’s rear guard. n Afria | | North Africa during an interlude CHURCHILL TELLS ABOUT o | the newsmen this afternoon that the | Nation should get set for heavy cas- ualties in ‘“perhaps the very near | future.” The statement was made during a discussion of developing planes jand driving the Axis from Africa. Secretary Stimson said the Al- lied forces are now making a great drive in Tunisia and heavy fight- ling is in prospect 10 ACQUIRE NAVALBASES ONPACIFIC Carl Vinson Makes Pro- posal fo “Keep Japan Disarmed af Sea” , WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—A con- gressional investigation of methods for permanent acquisition of “step~ 'ping stones” for aerial and naval bases across the Pacific, is proposed by Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Committee. | Vinson said he will appoint a Naval Sub-committee to undertake : detailed study for developing snd icquiring bases. The undertaking, be conceded, will probably involve territorial possessions of France, Holland and Japan. We need a network of bases, said Vinson, to “keep Japan disarmed on the sea and prevent future aggres- (flon in that part of the world.” The suggestion was laid before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday by Sccretary of avy Knox in urging continuance the lend-lease act D - ming proximately 14,000,000 men over Can 49 years of age are now working in the Urited States. British Pin}-e Minister Gives Defails of Casa- blanca Plans s aman . Feb. 11. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared today the Allies have landed nearly half a million fight- ing men in Africa and planned an offensive campaigzn within the next nine months with the goal of “en- gaging the enemy” on the largest scale at the earliest possible mo- ment. In a war review, vibrating with his usual fighting spirit and bright- ened by unusual optimism, he brought back from the Casablanca unconditional surrender conference the news of the unification of the command in North Africa and a vledge that Europe will be invaded ¢ scon as the United Nations are dy. | These were the highpoints of his address to a cheering House of Commons. He also told of what is going on: One-As the British Eighth Army moves into Tunisia, the North Af- rican Command under American Commander Eisenhower with Gen Alexander in second command; the Mediterranean air forces are un- der British Air Vice Marshal Air \rthur Tedder, and the sea forces are under Admiral Sir Andrew unningham. Two-The Allies are more holding their own in the arfare, million more LONDON, than U-boat tons of a (Continued on Page Three) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Closiny quotation of Alaska Juneau tock today s 4, American 9 Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem teel 5 Commonwealth and outhern %, Curtiss Wright 7 General Motors 47%, International Harvester 59, Kennecott 31%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pa- cific 8%, United States Steel 51'%, Pound $4.04. i e o 0 0 o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 5:44 p.m. Dimout ends tomorrow (Friday) at sunrise at 8:39 am Dimout begins sunset at 5:47 pm. e v s 00000 DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are today's Dow. Jones averages: industrials 127.08 rails 29.08, utilities 16.76. Friday at . . . 5] . ° ° ° . °

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