The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9266. EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT® —_— PRESIDENT PREDICTS ATTACK ON JAPAN Germans Set Rostov on Fire; City Is Shelled NAZIS FACING BIG DEFEAT, . RUSS FRONT Debacle in Southern Rus- sia May Be Greafer than at Stalingrad (By Associated Press) The Germans are A Nazi Dies JAPS SEEK T0 DIVERT ATTENTION Don't Want People fo Think About Defeats in Pacific ting fire to the entire city of Ros- tov Unofficial dispatches declare ihat Rostov is being rapidly enveloped by the Russians and the Nazi forces, who have been driven ou of Shakhty, 45 miles northeast, did not retreat toward Rostov but are attempting to get away to the westward. Advices receiver late today clare the Russians are shelling city of Rostov from three sides. de- the reported set- | ! GAINS ARE CONTINUED Japs Still _F;Iiing Back- 135 Stragglers Are Picked Off HEADQUARTERS 13—The Allies ALLIED IN | AUSTRALIA, Feb. continue to push forward on Ll]mNEw (HARGESt NEW GUINEA Tenderloins or Tokyo, WILLDRIVE ~ Butteror Berlin, Sums | JAPS FROM | Up Our Food Sifuation NAZIS KILL 'NORWEGIANS, By JACK NETT WASHINGTON, Fef. 13— We've CHINASOIL To HifTokyEl)Tred, Not an got to make up our minds whether we want butter or Berlin, tender- loins or Tokyo.” In that pithy quip Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the U. S. Health Service, sums up the food situation of the future. And in it, too, is the answer in the hes to Salamaua, New A SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, Feb. the Allied High Command 13-—~The American conquest of Guadalcanal is officially described as the “complete route and utter defeat of the Jap army'which exe- cuted a non-orderly withdrawal.” This came from Commdr. Ralph Wilson, naval officer on the staff of Maj. Gen. Alexander Patch, am- plifying Patch’s report which said 6,066 Japs were killed and 127 cap- tured in closing the 25-day drive. Equipment captured included 273 announces, reporting that in the Wau area the enemy continues its withdrawal. The extent of the withdrawal was not stated in the communique which reported the death of 135 more Jap stragglers in the Kumusi| River area below Wau's battle- ground In addition, 90 other Jap bodies were found, corpses left from star- vation and other causes. { | i Nationals 'Ardrn’lit Practic- ing and Drilling with Weapons-Will Die STOCKHOLM, Feb. 13.—A Ger- man courtmartial condemned ten Norwegians to death today and sentenced three others'to prison | on charges they admitted drilling | | kitchens and grocery stores of the |land: “Where is this rationing go- | Island by Island ’ Attack /AXIS PROPAGANDA % ISHITBY F. D. R. | fore it gets better. Some observers ing to end?” If any one could answer mijfl"&d Nafions wi" S'a“d Tou omid wager your st xopex Together Affer War's End that OPA Administrator Prentiss| M. Brown; Secretary of Agriculture | Wickard, and Manpower Commis-| sioner Paul V. McNutt would do BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — President Roosevelt followed up his promises of “actual invasiohs” in Europe and battle royal for his services. ! This much is known, however;| blows against the Jap homeland It's going to get much worse be-| The pace of disaster is quicken- ' |say that as soon. as rationing is| with conferences with top mili- Wilson sald “it will ing for Hitler's invasion armies and is threatening to surpass even the debacle at Stalingrad. Soviet columns have raced 30 miles south toward the Sea of Azov and have left only a 70-mile- wide “escape corridor” for an es- timated 500,000 Germans to make their getaway. . Additional German satellites, es- timated at 250,000, are Teported fighting desperately in the western Caucasus, pinned against a narrow coastal strip below Rostov. A series of Russian victories are reported this afternoon in special bulletins and announce the capture of eight strategic citied and towns including the key rail center of Krasnodar, also Kradnoarmeisk, only 70 miles from the north| shores of the Sea of Azov. Col. Gen. Nikolai Catutin has been pro- | moted to a full general for the capture of the last city. { Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON. — Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire; personal physi- cian to the President, is proud of his patient. “I never like these long trips,” Mclntire confessed machine guns. take days to clean up the mess.” - > . NIGHTMARES BOTHERING BEATBACK NAZI PUSH IN AFRICA and practicing with weapons. tary leaders. , Admiral Leahy, General Mar- shall and Admiral King were called to the White House for conference as scores con- 7 | under way on canned goods, it will| The Germans recentiy announced | have to be extended to meats and | they had smashed a secret mili- | ,tter that to eggs, butter, cheese tary organization (and fish. - REPUBLICANS The reasons for shortages are ! gratulatery telegrams poured in. 1eally not so complex. One fourth | AT B of our food supply Is going to the WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Prest- military forces and = lend-lease. dent Roosevelt declared last night Pecple with more eating money in that “great’ ‘and decisive actions” (heir pockets than they have had will be taken to drive the'Jap in- for years are gobbling up the rest. vader from China, that other cam- This dramatic picture sequence, made from a Russian sniper’s post, shows a German soldier felled by a bullet while attempting to dash Upper left to lower right: Enemy runs into view from left, lengthens stride, staggers under impact of (From Paramount News). along a street in Stalingrad. bullet and falls to ground. House Okehs Children’s Welfare Ad SURVIVORS [French, Algefién Troops Plane Crash Victims Fight| Capture 53 Mofe \for Sleep as They Did Italians fo Keep Awake ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 13—A strong KETCHIKAN, Alaska Feb. German attack 13—| Percy Cutting and Joseph Tippits i .| Tunis, was beaten back by entrench- who fought against sleep in the| . 'miyicn troops an Allied spokes- | wildnerness for fear of freezing to . "o oo roda | death following the crash of the|™, po! o % g | The spokesman also said patrol- |Gillam plane, are now fighting for ', = T s lrest in the hospital here but are | UDE FiBIL and Algecian S o AT€ captured 53 Itallan prisoners in the ity “fifiys,‘;;;‘;*’;‘f,g sptycialn:;?:.““““ near the road between Dufahs les are in constant attendance tol*"d Fobaa. soothe them back to sleep. | - - Cutting wakes up shouting: “Joo,: jApS SUFFER ARE KILLED BY GERMANS [death.” B from the heights | |east of Ousseltia, 75 miles south of | | Tippets, aroused from a niyhl-‘ !mare frequently exclaims: "Don'l; |drowse off Sandy, gotta stay awake.” Sandy is Cutting’s nickname. Two Billsnln—froduced in Terrific Slaughter Takes Lower House This PlaceFigures Releas- Joe, wake up, youll freeze to CRITICIZE WAR CONDUCT | Traditional Viif\coln Day’ Programs Feature At- tack on Democrats (By Associated Press) | Calling for a coalition of Republi-| |cans and “real Democrats,” coupled | with an attack on “arrogant bur-[ jeaucracy” and criticism of the Ad-| ministration’s conduct of the war,' highlighted- traditional Lincoln Day gatherings on Friday night. | Alf Landpn and Gov. John Brick- er, of Ohio, wers mentioned as pos- ibilities to succeed Joseph Martin, ! former National Republican Chair man. Addresses were given in Omaha,i Nebraska; Nashville, Tennessee and | Pittsburgh. Wages paid industrial workers alcng increased nearly 22 per cent Snowslides Wreck Road CampinB.C. One Falallmjured -1 Others Serioulsy Hurt paigns will be started “in the kies over China and over Japan, |itself.” In a nationwide radio address at |the annual dinner of the White !House Correspondents’ Association, (the chief executive said the de- cisions reached at Casablanca were not confined to any one theater of war, and before the year is out this will be made known ‘to all the !world, in action rather than | words. | The President said the meeting produced “plenty of bad news for !the Germans, Italians and Japa- inese.” | Roads to Tokyo Declaring that the Allies lately lconcluded a4 long, hard battle in |the Southwest Pacific, demonstrat- ‘ing “our superior power of planes, |soldier and sailor fighting quali- ties,” the President said “we do PRINCE RUPERT, BC. Feb. 13.|, .’ expect to spend the time it ~—One man was fatally injured, an- | w1 take to bring Japan to final other is missing and eleven were! o g0t metely by inching our way hurt, two seriously, when three|g,y,,q igland by island across the after they had returned from North o Africa, “because you never know Mornlng what might happen, but the Presi- dent S"mdl this on: as if hbeedhaq‘; The House this morning passed | been) ; sleeping 1. his pwn allthe child welfare bill setting up a th’;hw‘:::sili(::se;l’fl“ S mmmuuvenile code for the Territory by e Sla 15 to 1 vote, Rep. Leo Rogge, i » in planes, for both the eastward Chairman of the Ways and Means and westward crossings of the At-|Committee casting the only dissent- lantic were made duruAlg the m%ht. |ing vote. The bill carries a $50,000 On a Pan American Airways clip- appropriation. per, he rolled into a lower berth | Sponsored by Rep. Harvey J. like any other passenger, and smith, the bill must now go tos the knoc:led ;rt seven hours of com-|Senate for consideration. fortable sleep. | Rep. Stanley McCutcheon intro- “We had perfect flying weather,” | quced a bill, b, S icl k- | , by request, which says Admiral McIntire, “with only 'would provide for the operation of nt f"; Jollbs u:ow and then when We the hospital at Kodiak under the struck clouds.” Territorial Board of Health by al Before leaving Washington, there poard consisting of three per.:jons‘ was a question of whether to givo\apminwd by the Common Council | the President “shots” of antl-;ol‘ Kodiak, instead of by the Gov-| Doctors explained the men are still suffering shock and subcon- scious terror but are making satis- factory progress. However, it will be many weeks before the four survivors are restored to full health ed in Ankara ANKARA, Feb. 13. — Yugoslav quarters here declare that 27,000 persons suspected by the Germans B with having sympathy with Yugo—f‘_\,“ four have been given tranfu- slav patriot Gen. Mihailovic have |S100S to build up their strength - AMBUSH IS DNB REPORT ~ SOLOMONS Enemy’s thdalcanal Flight Seen as *'Com- plete Rout” | (By Associated Press) , Tokyo broadcasts, apparently at- {tempting to divert attention from ithe Jap disasters on the Papuan | Peninsula on New Guinea and the {Guadalcanal defeat, declared today |the Mikado's forces sunk 98 Allied 'warships and damaged 42 against {the loss of 18 warships of theirs| sunk months, in the Solomons area and 16 damaged in the last six| Secretary of the Navy Frank Republican, speaking in Springfield, | "llinois, recalled that Lincoln was| ubjected to great ecriticism und[ 1dded “history is reptating itself.”| - HOSPITAL NOTES Edward Leeming, who has been |2 medical patiént ih St. Ann’s Hos- | {pital, left yesterday for his home. Mrs. Walter Peterson and her in- | fant daughter are leaving St. Ann’s| Hospital today for their home. | | i | | | Alexander Geider was admitted ito St. Ann's Hospital yesterday to |receive medical care. , | Cepartment. .in the Elks Ballroom and there will typhus or anti-malaria serum. Mc- Intire was afraid the shots them- selves would make his patient un- comfortable, or perhaps ill, and interfere with business. NO FDR MOSQUITOES Though the route included trop- ical areas, where malaria is com- mon, the President escaped that disease. At Natal, Brazl, he was in a controlled area, and as for the stop in Liberia, it was made dur- ing the daytime. And, as Admiral McIntire says, “Mosquitoes feed COMMITTEE T0 British, American Force. After recelving medical care in St. Ann’s Hospital for the last few days, Mrs. Robert Coughlin will be discharged today, and will return SRR to her home, | | o | WOME" MAY "o Mr. and Mrs. Robert Congdon| are the parents of a baby boy born SIG“ up WI'I'H at St. Ann's' Hospital yesterday af- U. 5. MARINES ernor of Alaska. | A bill introduced by Rep. Wil-| A joint meeting of the Judiciary| committees of the House and Sen-| ate has been set for this afternoon for the purpose of organizing the; 5 labout New Guinea. |1iam mgan would provide for a e | W bodies into a commiuee to in-| Storming Atlas Moun- | Tne pomei-sponsored figures arel tlicl(‘nl.‘\' appropriation of $598.67 m‘vestigam the Territorial Depart-| o 5 | far out of line with Allied tabula-| \‘.qmp‘_muw the following persong | Ment of Labor under Michael J. fains W|ped Ouf | tion: |for the loss of cattle owned byjH"“‘s' “""m” Commissioner. ! —_— ¢ | |them in carrying out provisions of | A fllfllrmap will be chosen, and| [ONDON, Feb. 13—A DNB dis- | [the livestock inspection law: | other organizational business at-|patch, proadcast tonight by the| ’ Thomas Peterkin, Anchorage, | tended to. That any actual steps|perlin Radio,*and picked up her 1$11333; Claus Johnson, Fairbanks, xl‘u b:m‘)';kt"? :jn line with the in-{caiq 4 force of British and Ameri-| ternoon at 2:30. o'clock. The little [$30; H. LaRose, Palmer, $113.33; Vesugation is douhtful. jeans attempted a strong assault on| boy weighed six pounds and fifteen |Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., Haas is now in the States on bus- the forward Axis positions on the | Palmer, $11333; George Danner, iness for the War Labor Board, ac-|porthern slope of the Axis moun- Juneau, $96.67; Curtis H. Sherwood, | 2dded “f‘*“’"y " repef\tmz itsell.”| (oins in Tunisia but “fell into an | ounces. | | | Arthur Brown, son of Mr. and Juneau, $132.01. The House adjourned |o'clock Monday morning. - only at night.” The usual regimen of the Presi- dent's living was completely broken s up, with irregular hours of sleep, | a change of diet, end long, hard "Yoo Hooll travel. It was the kind of trio ’ which most men would have to, rest up, but when the Presi-! SALEM, Mass.—There’s a wise old dent got back, he swung into his|bird in Salem with an eye for a| work without a break. | pretty girl. When she reported One explanation of his continued |someone called “Yoo Hoo" at her good health was the presence in'€ach night while she walked to ¥ | work, police investigated and found | the “masher” was an owl. | until 11} bt o TN e S A (Continued on Page Four) {ambush "and was wiped out.” e R v H Thelj(‘ has been no official con- Marine Corps opened a recruiting | from |firmation of this report from any drive today for women candidates yesterday. Reserve of | Allied source, ALBANY, N. Y. — Twenty-five | years ago, Eugene V. O'Sullivan was | rejected for armed service because | of a slight visual defect. |who called and said a cat had Now, at 44, he’s one of the proud- |een badly mauled by a dog and est men at Camp UpmwK'd_byil‘fld climbed into a tree and died, the same doctor who rejected him |telephoned again to say the kitts in 1917. {lost only one of its lives. “It came ——,———— - {back to life, jumped out of the Empire Classifieds Pay! tree and ran,” she reported. .o CAT PLAYS POSSUM | WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The for the new Women's |the Marines, They will be enrolled in Navy and ted to the Government Hospital| ® McPHERSON, Kas.-—A woman Maring recruiting offices through- Friday as a out the Jand and trained in schools with the Wavgs. Women between 20 and 36, with are eli - WAR ROND! zible. lege training, | BUY |Mrs. Peter Brown was discharged the Government Hospital Alexandria Meloridor was admit- PARROT, CLASS BIRD | | YORKVILLE, Ohio.—High school | ® college degrees or two years of col- freshmen here chose a parrot as|® their class' bird. R BUY WAR BONDS snowslides wrecked a road con- here near Kwanitsa, B.C. > FIREMEN'S BALL EVENT FOR TONIGHT ‘The big public amusement to- night is the Firemen's ball, the 37th Annual affair given by the mem- bers of the Juneau Volunteer Fire The affair is given be many special features for the public, which is invited. Music for the dance will be provided by Bob Tew's orchestra - - CHIMNEY FIRE A chimney fire at the Star Bak- ery on Lower FPFranklin Street lled out the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department with a 1-6 alarm last evening. No damage was done > o o DIMOUT TIME Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 5:49 o'clock Dimout ends tomorrow (Sunday) at sunrise 8:35 am. Dimout begins sunset at 5:51 pan. Dimout ends Monday sunrise at 8:32 a.m. Dimout begins Monday at sunset at 5:5¢ p.m. e e 0000 b0 I at ‘o I | K] Sunday at at of . vast expanse of the Pacific. Knox, emphasizing that he is a|Struction camp 43 miles east of| .rpere are many roads which lead right to Tokyo,” he pointed fout, “and we shall neglect none lof them.” | Otherwise, the President’s ad- jdress was one of reassurance W those disturbed over the policy |toward the French—those fearful |that some of our Allles may fal- {ter; those professing concern over | what sort of peace Russia may in- |sist upon, and those troubled over |what may be the fate of the na tion once the war ends. } 0ld Tricks Those, he said, are Axis propa- gandists, “trying all of the old tricks” in order to divide the Unit- ed Nations and to “create the idea that if we win this war, Rus- sia, England, China and the Unit- ed States are going to get into a cat and dog fight.” The President paid tribute to the pverwhelming courage and endur- jance” of the Russian armies and the genius of Premier Stalin. Then he stated: “The tragedy of war has sharpened the vision and leadership of the peoples of all the United Nations. I say to you, from my own full knowledge, they see the utter necessity of our standing togeiher after the war to secure a eace based on the ermanence.” The Commander-in-Chief told the correspondents that the Nazis have commented on this subjéct and they “must be frantic, indeed, if they believe they can devise any |propazanda . that will turn the British, Ameriean and Chinese vovernments and peoples against Russia, or Russia against the rest principles of &Oonunm.-d on Page SAlx)gv~