The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9265. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943 MhMBFR ASSOCIATED PRESS __ PRICE 1EN L0 PRICE TEN CEN'H JAPS LEAVE 1,000 DEAD ON NEW GUINEA Russian Reserves Smashing Into Nazi Leaders of Allied Forces STEELARMS ENCIRCLING VITALAREA Donefs Basin, Held by En-; emy, Threatened | by Advance MOSCOW, F‘qb4 12 — Breflk\ng down fierce resistance and smash- ing deep into the ranks of German defenses, reserves of the Red Ar- my today stretched two arms around the vital Nazi-held Donets River basin in southern Russia and extended the threat to Kharkov, capital of the Ukraine. The Russians reported the long- est arm clasped about the Donets coal country, which stretches east ahd west across the top of the basin for 200 miles from positions just east of Kamensk to Lozovaya in the Ukraine, on the Kharkov-Chimea Railway. The other arm reaches north and sbuth from positions east of Kar- ensk to Melikhovsk on the north- efn bank of the Don River, just 2] miles northeast of Movocherk- assk. ! Géneral Valutin's army thus has driven toward Rostov through a coryidor which provides him with * o strong positions in the move west- i watd o hit Rostov. . - : l 5 e BROADCASTS .. & H Vice-Admiral Frank J. Fletcher, U. 8. N., (ommamlanl. of the Thir- teenth Naval District and Commander of the Northwest Sea Frontier, is pictured at left with Rear-Admiral J. W. Reeves, Jr., at an Alaskan base on New Year's Day. Vice-Admiral Fletcher conferred with Army and Navy officers on his tour and observed conditions under which enlisted personnel were discharging their duties. Tour Bases in Alaska s o ‘ WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt will go on the air for. 20 minutes tonight at 6:30 d'clock, PWT, at.which time he will- discuss subjects that are of concern both on foreign and do- mestic home fronts. Tomorrow night (Saturday) from 7:15 to 7:45 o'clock, PWT, the draft status of all American citizens will | be discussed over the radio by Paul V. McNutt and Brig. Gen Lewis ‘B. Hershey. This will be over the Blue Network. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — The basic ' problem faced by Churchill and Roosevelt in trying to unscramble the North African political mess was the difficulty of imposing DEMOCRATIC French leadership | Lumber Shorfage Acule, Government Reporfed By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—Appar- N real and on - paper. Real, in the actual shortage of specific woods, such as walnut for gun stocks. Ony paper,” because in overall board- feet consumption, the demand is termiting its way into a huge stocl pile sufficient for momentary needs but which may become depleted | soon. ::?:Ismu:r;;:‘;:c;:e:tzm;,:f :::,o The government hasn't done| . much ahout it. According to al--‘l flc.:l:rly e T et i year-old Rep. Walter M. Pierce, o { Oregon Democrat, who, after five For instance, Julius. Holmes, pay | consecutive two-year terms in the| SR RGEs Do Geny Bseitigwers o . ; ! House, was defeated for reelection, | staff, made no secret, during his| % one of the things that might have| career in the State Department, helped earlier, would even help now, | of férvid faith in Spanish dictator is establishment of the Forest Pro- Franco ard his fervid dislike of ducts Service, which has been on| Front Governments. the President’s desk since early| it Murphy, Chief State De- November and was recommended by m«nf represan!:‘::fe t:n Ng;fl:, the WPB and Department of Agri-| riga, Wwaxes en! astic abou culture last June. French leaders of the Right, but| As a matter of fact, the drive to not the Popular Front Government | remedy the lumber shortage, both | of .Leon Blum which closely resem- | : actual and prospective, is three- | bled that of his chief, Presidenu pronged: (1) The usual priorities, | Roosevelt. price controls, etc. (2) The FPS. Back in Washington, the men‘ (3) Government regulation of cut-| who have guided the State Depart-} ting practices. ment’s French policy, Jimmy Dunn | | and Ray Atherton, have vigorously protected the Spanish Fascists, and | give every indication that if truly democratic governments were es- tablished in Spain or France it would be an internationul tragedy. | { The third has gained little head-| way, Plerce charges: “Entrenched’ private industry, more concerned | with profits than with public wel- fare or victory, prefers scarcity and high prices, at least until the bulk of their holdings have been cut over and allowed to go tax delin- quent. The second, the FPS, is a brain child of the U. 8, Forest Service. By executive order, it would es- “SO-CALLED” FREE FRENCH | Finally, the man whom Murphy has asked to be sent to help him in North Africa is Sam Reber, au- thor of the famous statement in which Cordell Hull referred to De: Gaulle's forces as the “SO-‘ CALLED Free French. Although Hull issued the statement, the Free \ French know that Reber wrote it! for him. So it is easy to imagine | how much cooperation DeGaulle | will expect—or get—from Reber in /Continued on Page Four) I ) !RSEYITE — Jeannette Feldman (abave) of Newark, N. J., takes advantage of South- ern California’s sun during a winter sojourn in a Los Angeles watering place. |to finance the country’s 31,000 saw- mills and put them on a fulltime of lack of capital or manpower or inability to get timber, these mills are now idle all or much of the| year. “The FPS~ says Pierce, “would (Continued on Page Hve) The largest army in Central Am- rica Is that of Guatemala, i Yg(y Lack on Subjed ently the lumber shortage is both | tablish a $100,000,000 revolving fund operating basis. At present, because; STORMSHOLD BACK AFRICA OFFENSIVES | Allies Are Now Ready for| Concentrated Drive in Tunisia ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 12—Unifi- |cation of the Allied command in | North Africa has cleared the way lm an all-out offensive against the Axis in Tunisia, but observers be- |lieve bad weather might delay the | showdown for a month or six weeks. More storms swept rain and snow across the Tunisian front yester- day and communiques issued both here and at Cairo disclosed no change m the military situation | The British radio, elaborating on a Reuters report, said British and ‘Frrnch forces have advanced 8 |miles in the “Mateur sector on the lnmth(rn front after a dawn at- |tack Wednesday, and declared, “a ccond advance is now in progress.” There was no confirmation of this report. POST-WAR DEBT WILL | ~ BE LARGE Wi of $300,000,000- 000 in Talk | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 12— | Wendell L. Willkie said last night !that a $300 billion debt might face the nation when the war is over. “I have not heard of practical |suggestions by the Administration in meeting the problem,” he told members of the Women's Repub- lican Club at a Lincoln Day ban- | quet. | Willkie said the solution lay “in the expansion and development i [ [ | [ all of our economic forces, agri- | eulture, management and capital in harmony and cooperation.” 19 KILLED IN CRASH OFBOMBER : Ferry Co:m?and Plane Goes Down Over Newfoundland MONTREAL, Feb. 12—The toll of the crash of a Royal Air Force Ferry Command bomber in New- | foundland Tuesday night was in- | creased to 19 dead last night with | |the death of another injured sur- ivivor, the Ferry Command an- nounced. The two remaining survivors are both members of the Ferry Com- mand personnel. They escaped without injury. The dead included the craft’s |five-man crew, and 14 passengers, 113 of whom were Ferry Command men returning to ferry aircraft back to Britain. The other pas- senger was a member of the Brit- ish Army. The men killed were described as topnotch members of Ferry |Command crews. Officials said the | weather prevented the plane from tla.nding at the proper airport. - R More than one-fifth of the human 'race is Chinese. IIkie Say-;fiay Amount within our borders by marshalling | | | | 1 Principal figures in historic Allied war strategy conference at Lmbhncn. North Africa, are grouped on the lawn of the hotel where they met. (Letf to right) Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, North African High Commis- sioner; President Roosevelt; General Charles De.Gaulle, Fighting French leader, and Prime Minister Chur- woll.5. U.5. PLANES SINK ENEMY DESTROYERS Two U.S.CargoPlanes | Missingin Canadawith Thirieen Aboard Ships | | | PLANE (RASH i e Deared Repr Tlls of sons aboard, have been missing i four days in the wild north | country and search planes have been unable to find any trace. ! By WILLIAM HIPPLE VICTIM UNDER One of the planes is missing near Watson, on the British | (A.P. Correspondent) OPIATES NOW‘ Columbia and Yukon Territory | —— | boundary, and the other i§ be- | GUADALCANAL, mons Area Feb. 10.—(De- tween Fort Nelson and Fort |layed)—United States bombers and Aluxpcdo planes sank three Jap St. John. Three persons are aboard one of the planes and the other carried ten. All persons on the planes are believed to be U. 8. citizens. It is said the next of Kkin have been notified. Both United States and Royal | destroyers and damaged at \lflul others in two attacks agalnsl |task forces of the desperately eva- | cuating Jap officers and Lechmcul personnel from Guadalcanal in the | first week of February. The American warplanes . | attacked 20 Jap destroyers Gebo Has Broken leg, Compound Arm Fracture —Cumng Gets Ring Alaska, KETCHIKAN, Feb. 12— nes 2obert G e survivor: | New Georgi or- m\»t t ((‘.r*hn. 0“1, of llze 'vumw‘:\ Canadian Air Force planes New Georgia Island on the after of tb yillam plane crash, is u joined in the search. | noon of February 4. der cpiates following the setting of R Dive-bombers scored three direct a broken. leg and arm which was hits on one destroyer, sinking it in found tc be a compound facture three minutes. after an X-ray was taken. Gebo's E l B I " P O condition is however good, physi- [] [] |other destroyer, and torpedo planes for 2y which followed the dive-bombers, Jo-eph Tippits and Percy Cutting . damaged another. we improving but all have Renoml“aled The Japs set up heavy anti-air- dlmwl / in sleeping end awaken | frequent ly with nightmares of the | horrendous ordeal. | Yesterday afternoon, Dewey Metz- dorf sent Cutting, who is in anoth- room at the hospital an $1800 lth,.mr nd ring and “tell him that is |the lightest thing he carried down |that mountain but maybe he will |like it as a souvenier.” Metzdorf told the nurse that Cut- ting helped him down the cliff to the survivor’s camp. - AL JURORS ARE To Pay First " EXCUSED UNTIL Visit : i election and ith the Federal . P A | Jurors on call in the United H:’““"“‘* ‘\*d":i::“:"l“w: ‘Wh(““”" WI” ChnSten Flve Cargo States District Court are excused Was established in Alaska Vessels for Brifain- Great Lakes Port |craft fire and sent a flock of Ze- ros up for protection, but 17 of By Roosevelt President Roosevelt today re- nominated E. L. Bartlett for the position of Secretary of Alaska for a four-year term. Bartlett has held the position !since February 2, 1939, when he took the oath of office in Juneau He came here from Fairbanks where he was engaged in mining enterprises, and later was con- nected with the Fairbanks News- Miner. lost in the action. The continued towards Quintuplefs Guadalcanal, An- mtil further notice. This is the 7The Secretary is now in the announcement made today by Clerk States on business involving civil- Robert Coughlin. ian food supply problems for tht Petit jurors were excused recent- 1 eiTIOTY. TORONTO: Jght. iXe-"Fhie Dintie Z BT quintuplets will launch five 20 ly to meet again on next Monday. 7 T Now (St AT R i ships for Britain at a Great Lakes .ou ok mm& b en L:nu 1,1 ® o o o o o 8 & o o o ot on May 9. o e YR PR WEATHER REPOR e Each vessel of the quint fleet 4 . i . (U. 8. Bureau) ® | will bear a name of one of Olivia e e Tepp. Thursday, Feb. 11. ® Dionnes’ famous daughters from | Ninety-four percent of the New ® Maximum 32, minimum 12. e Callander, Ontario. Zealand population is of British ® Precipitation .12. . The trip to a Great Lakes port origin; four per cent are native ® Snow depth 6 inches. ® will be the quints’ first visit to Maoris. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 olthv United States. least | their aircraft were knocked down,| against 10 of our planes which were | remaining Jap destroyers | Ranks THRUSTAT ~ WAUENDS ~ IN FLIGHT Enemy Remmem Defeated v ' Decisively by Al- lied Men ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | AUSTRALIA, Feb. 12.—A large Jap- anese ground force which January |30 attempted to capture Wau, New Guinea, 35 miles southwest of the | important Jap base of Salamaua, has been decisively defeated and is in full retreat, leaving behind an |estimated 1,000 dead. The Jap regiment, formerly esti- mated as consisting of 2,800 men, is fleeing toward Mubo, some 12 I miles below Salamaua, after being | battered by jungle-trained Austra- wuu and harrassed by American | fllers. The Japs were badly hurt by Allied artillery. The Aussies, wip- ing up stragglers in the rugged |country southeast of Wau, found 200 more Jap dead not previously reported. | | | i | GUADALCANAL FREED ADVANCE BASE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Feb. 12-—Prob- ably 2000 Japs, including every high officer, have been evacuat:” from Guadalcanal in the Solomons. They left the week prior to the {complete American capture of the island, Maj. Gen. Millard F. Har- mon, Commander of U. 8. Troops in the South Pacific disclosed. Harmon said considerable booty |and technical equipment was cap- |Lured near Cape Esperance. 10THU.S. AIR FORCE HASPARTY Celebrafes Xfiivefiary by Knocking Hades Out of Japanese NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 12. The United States Army's Tenth (Alr Force sent four units of bombers against Jap installations in Burma today as part of its cele- bration of the first anniversary of its creation. Two of the bomber formations concentrated on the railroad in- stallations at Rangoon, and an- other attacked ‘the Myitgne bridge, already wrecked, disrupting Jap efforts to restore the rail and highway communication through Mandalay. The fourth unit raided Jap anti- alrcraft establishments around the bridge, which sought to protect |work crews during repair opera- ' | tions. MRS. HOUDINI ~ DEAD IN SOUTH | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12. — Mrs. Beatrice Houdini, 69, widow of the {famous Harry Houdini, died aboard a train at Needles, Calif, last night. She had been ill for several months with a heart ailment. - o The average Navy nurse is 24 years old on entering the service. ® & o o 0 o 0 o 0o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins at sunset at 5:44 pm. Dimout ends tomorrow (Saturday) at sunrise at 8:37 am. Dimout begins Saturday at ® sunset at 5:49 p.n. jo oo 000000000 . . . . tonight . . . . . e00ececccsee