The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9267. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — 1 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1943 __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — RED ARMY FORCES SMASH, TAKE ROSTOV French Fleet Reaches U. S. Ports For Repairs BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU HEADS LIST Cruiser,Several Destroyers| Are Also Docked on East Coast NEW YORK, Feb. 15—The 33.- 000-ton French battleship Riche- leu, crippled but still far from im- potent, slid into New York harbor last Thursday after dodging a pack of submarines in the mid-Atlantic| and riding out the toughest gale that many of her crew had exper- ienced. The 7,600-ton French Montcalm, six-inch gun vessel which like the Richelieu had been| cruiser | Creek; Block JAP FLEET JUST FLED, Saw What It Was Up SOLOMONS based at Dakar, made most of the Atlantic crossing with the battle-| ship and is berthed at Philadel- phia. Censorship only today permitted the disclosure of the arrivals which included several French destroyers, based at an undisclosed eastern port. Against, Decided Not to Reinforce Units By NORMAL BELL | Associated Press Corresponlent WITH THE UNITED STATES FLEET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIJ, French Statement Feb. 15—The Japanese Navy, after Fire Rages af Dawson Destroyed; 3 Dead, Scores Injured; Dynamite Store Explodes mores { DAWSON CREEK, B. C, Feb. 15 —A toll of three dead, six missing land between 125 and 130 injured, !is the casualty list counted ffom the raging fire that wiped out one |entire block of this war booming irailhead town Saturday night | The raging fire was punctuated |by a terrific explosion as the flames found stores of dynamite. Most of the injured were only {slightly hurt, struck by fiery de- {bris from the dynamite explosion | {which shook buildings six miles away | Nine seriously hurt were flown {to Edmonton Sunday as a United | States transport plane was quickly |converted into an ambulance. Three United States Army doc- i tors arrived here by plane to aid | the first aid trained American Red !Cro.x:, nurses and set up emergency | facilities. ) Cause Unknown NAZI TANKS MAKE BREAK | IN AFRICA Division Forces Through Americans | af Faid Pass JUNE ‘41—-JUNE JUNE 22-Nazis attack Russia JUNE 23 Brest-Litovsk JUNE: 29-Minsk falls to Nazis Y1 Germans claim capture recoptured AJG. 6-Smolensk falls AUG. 14—Nazis claim Odessa encircled SEPT 14—Hitlerites -in Lenin- giad suburbs S:PT months Vader. SEPT ocT | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN [NCRTH AFRICA, Feb. 15—Ger- man armored forces, believed to be | |those of Field Marshal Erwin Rom- | mel, have smashed through-Ameri- |can positions west of Faid Pass | for 20 miles, endangering the Am- | erican anchor at Gafsa, farther to |the south. ! A United States spokesman said | |the German tanks overwhelmed the 19-.After siege of two Kiev falls 'to the in- 1-Nazis at Sea of Azov Germans occupy - Kolno, JULY 27—Nazis within 43" miles of ‘Leningrad Finns, who entered war June 26, say all terri tory ceded to Russia 16 months before has been 3-Hitler in triumphant speech says eaemy is ‘broken and will never rise again OCT. 6-:Major offensive begins with Moscow as | American artillery positions guard- JUNE JULY 4-Russian siege JuLy 10 east of Kharkov 42 Lomza and JULY 19 - Soviet troops dent ol Rige Voronezh JULY hilovgrad JuLy force Reds out Novocherkossk AUG 5 est of Salsk AUG 17 -Reds Caucasus AUG 19-Reds AUG 25-Swas Mt Elborus AUG 27 AUG. 31 past Rzhev SEPT 6 20 Russia E, : = the In Germans push to Rossosh 28 -Heavy Nazis reach northern Nazis announce capture of N ‘42—PRESENT s admit fall of Sevastopol after THE TIDES OF WAR [N RUSSIA o awnea ] 150 mi Nazi lines at ns quit Voro Nazi blows of Rostov’and south admit fall of lose Krasnodar tika hoisted on the Caucasian Nazis reach Mozdok sector, Soviets advance ar north banks of the Volga vorossisk irs. goal otr OCT: ing the westward exit of Faid Pass | |and that the Nazi tanks, possibly ! |50 of them, branched out to the | northwest and southwest after the | initial attack at 7 a.m. yesterday. | Gafsa is a rail town 60 miles southwest of Faid Pass. This (:N.yl and the surrounding area is re- | ported to be in danger of being | | cut off by the spearhead of the 11=Vyazma succumbs 19-Nazis take Taganrog OCT. 21-Berli ocr attack Crimea tov NOV. 27 grad is encircled 29—Nazis NOV. 22-Nazis capture Ros key to Caucasus Foe 36 mi 3 southern part of Stalin . SEPT Nazis claim troops = ente grad SEP1 14 LEELIN n caims_Lenin Nazis mov overlooking city of Stalingrad SEPT 15 in Stalingrad OCT. 6—Reds make 7-mi gain, take heights near Rzhev past Stalino Streel fighting rages from At a press conference announcing the arrival of the vessels, Vice-Ad- apparently extensive aerial scout- miral Fernard, chief of the French Naval Mission to the United States, sald “the ships arrived at certain| | The fire is believed to have Istarted in the bank from an un- known cause and raced uncon- trolled for three hows. ’ The entire block ‘of buildings, in- {Nazi division. Moscow say Reds Sources here sald it is assumed | Gafsa might soon be evacuated. An Allied communique announced the “enemy has launched attacks NOV. 28-Nazis sstopol open new dr | [ i | OCT 8—Soviets drive deep on Nazi flank north DEC. 1—Russians open winter attack; Nazis flee ve to capture of Stalingrad. OCT 10-Stalingrad stands off attackers, “bur Naozis strike in direction of Astrakhan. BIG SWEEP BEING MADE ~ BYRUSSIANS ' Southernmost Anchor of | German Offensive Line Attacked, Captured VOSORSHILOVGRAD IS " ALSO SEIZED BY RUSS Nazi Troops Are Reported Driven to Westward in Broad Retreat | (By Associated Press) | The triumphant Red Army troops | smashed into Rostov Sunday, thus | seizing the southernmost anchor of | the German defensive line. | After a violent onslaught the | Red Army also captured Vosorshil- | ovgrad to .the north to sweep on | through the Don basin, driving the lenemy westward In a broad re- | treat. The seizure of Rostov on the | Don, gateway to the Caucasus, and \Vorolmlvognd. both important in- | dustrial centers of the Don Basin, |is the crowning achievement of the | | | | :Sovnet‘s current campaign since the irecaptum of Stalingrad. | Moscow heard the great news | Sunday over the city radio and | telephones rang over the metropo- lis as joyful citizens called the |news to one another. The radio station played stir- S OCT 27 - Reds advance along the Maikop- Tuapse railway NOV 19-Berlin says Reds open offensives in Caucasus, along Don and near Leningrad. NOV 20 - Nazis routed at Ordzhonikidze in Caucasus, Moscow says. g | NOV 23—Soviet drives above ring Red Army marching tunes. and below Stalingrad gather | The German radio acknowledged speed. the fall of both cities only a few NOV 24-Reds cross Don, \hours after the Russians Issucd the smash forward jofficial communique. The German NOV 26-Russian advance moves fo close trap radio sald Geriiin frogpe evacual: around Stalingrad on Germans. {4 methodical fashion in the course of broad strategical move- ments. » Now the whole defensive line in southern Russia is crumbling rap- idly. | Sunday night the Moscow . com- from Rostov. DEC. 10—Reds blast foe 110 mi. east of Lenin- grad. DEC. 16 — Reds retake Klin, advance’ on all fronts. JAN. 19—Soviets retake Mozhaisk and many other points. - FEB. 11—Reds advance at Se- vastopol and gain on other fronts, finding Nazis freezing in cold MAR. 5-Yuknov, on Moscow- Warsaw highway, returns to Red hands. MAR. 15 — Soviets drive to gates of Kharkov. MAY 24-Russians abandon afterNozi. spring offensive gets under way JUNE 15-Nazis.-at’ Kharkov cross the Donets R Continted on Page Three) by tank, infantry and artillery, | supported by dive-bombers” in the | | Faid Pass area, and added, “heavy | |fighting took place and is con- | tinuing.” | Meanwhile, the British Eighth | Army moved slowly ahead along | |the coastal road toward Ben Gar- | dane, 25 miles inside the Tunisian border. Air activity from the east was sharply curtailed. - RABAULIS ATTACKED damages DEC. 29—Red tide sweeps toward Kotelnikovski and Rostov; threatens to cut off Caucasus. Kerch Peninsula JAN. 2—Soviets recapture Velikie Luki. END OF JAN.-Reds lift Leningrad seige, advance on all fronts. ing of the strong United States Pacific Fleet, refused to give bat-| tle in the final stages of the fight | for Guadalcanal, thus the Pacific Fleet has greatly reduced the im- |Cluding a hotel, lumber compar — ~ | portance of the Jap fleet and be- telegraph office and other premis- . . littled the Jap claim that the Nip- |5 Were levelled before the fire The waShlngtUfl‘m"s stopped. the attempt to re.|fighters, aided by United States |inforce Guadalcanal on their own|fire fighter equipment, brought the M G R dimlllauw‘ | flames under control. erry' 0- oun | Apparently the Nipponese fleet 15| The lflrs; eim;;:;eoogr kept " S o were placed al A . By DREW PEARSON ' 5iiiein"und Shortland bases norun| Dawson Creck is the southern (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty) |of Guadalcanal after finding out | terminus of the Alaska highway Ithe strength of the American foe.|#nd the supply base for this WASHINGTON.—In his private; An explanatory bulletin, broad- |nOrthern wartime project, 345 miles | chambers at the Capitol, Vice- cast to the crew of the warship ¢2st of Edmonon. | President Henry Wallace gave a/to which I have been assigned.| Teemed With Excitement | luncheon in honor of the visiting |stated the “enemy was out in| 1ne town was teeming with/ Vice-President-elect of Uruguay,|force, without doubt, but after DOrthern construction workerswhen | Dr. Alberto Guani. |finding out what it was up against, | the fire broke out. Scores of per- | When he rose to introduce withdrew instead. of reinforcing |SO0NS seeking Saturday night ex-| Guani to the select group of Sena- |Guadalcanal.” |citement crowded the scene. The | tors, Wallace said, “Dr. Guani, 1 |Dawson Creek Hotel and other | Vice-President of Uruguay, wm‘ | buildings in the affected block were | have an advantage over me, in/ that he will be allowed to vote on | all measures and to speak in the! debate. | “But his greatest advantage, added Wallace with a twinkle, “is| that members of the Uruguayan Senate are allowed to speak for only one hour, except by unani- mous consent, when they may speak for only two hours.” HOW FDR AND CHURCHILL WORK Inside word regarding the Casa- blanca discussions is that 99 per- | cent of them were military. Very | little in the way of international politics was discussed. Churchnl! and Roosevelt left the details to| their military and naval men, but| they themselves made the major decisions. Both Churchill and Roosevelt have a long background of experi- ence in military and naval stre- tegy. FDR's mother once found him at the ageé of 14 reading Admigal| Mahan, long considered the tough- est, driest, but in those days the best book on naval strategy (it was based on battleships). Churchill conceived and pushed various moves in the last year, in- cluding the Gallipoli campaign. In this war he personally has made most of the major decisions involv- ing British forces. In Washington, Roosevelt has a large map of the world on his wall. A naval aide moves miniature ships and symbels to indicate how many men, and what naval| strength we have in various parts of the world. What happens is that Churchill and Roosevelt propose alternative offensives, such as a drive into Norway, or a drive through the| Balkans, or a crossing into Italy, for their experts to chew on. The experts then come back with a report on how many men, how | many ships, how many planes; (Continued on Page Four) |night and the Naval Base at Spe- lsoan evacuated. | The Northern Alberta Railway, |for which Dawson Creek forms the | northern terminus, used locomotives 'to bring water on cars to the fire | scene. GERMANY AND ITALY UNDER Dynamite Explodes Hundréds wert crowded around when flames licked into the ware- zia on Italy’s west coast, 100 miles, south of Milan, was also raided by| British bombers. The British Air Ministry in an official report said a “great weight | of explosives and incendiary bombs Premises were dropped on objectives in Col- &round. ogne and a heavy attack was made ' The wires from the Northern Al- on Milan and large fires were ob- berta Railway telegraph office, served in the industrial area. Eley- 8cross the street from the block en of our aircraft afe missing” | destroyed, were found intact and Several waves of planes attacked the operator worked with Edmon- Milan. A Rome broadcast picked up perefscores of messages. says heavy damage was done at| STOCK QUOTATIONS Milan, 16 persons were killed and | NEW YORK, Feb. 15. — Closing several hundred injured. - - | | | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can FROM SOUIH |82%, ‘Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem IHISMOR"'NG teel 59%, Commonwealth and Southern 13/16, Curtiss Wright 8, General Motors 48, International Arrivals here from Seattle this Harvester 61, Kennecott 31%, New morning were John McCormick and York Central 12 7/8, Northern Pa- R. J. Sommers, cific 8%, United States Steel 52, From Southeast Alaska ports in- Pound $4.04 coming passengers were B. W. Ar- DOW, JONES AVERAGES nold, Collis Druley, Harold Conrad, The following are today’'s Dow, | stored. The resulting blast showered —_— | flaming debris in all directions and 1 H some of the crowd suffered burns co'°nge Ralded a'ngh' asjbut most of the bruises were on 1 | heads -and bodies including frac- IS Mlla“' Nava' Base ‘;nures when many were struck by 1 | debris which knocked them down. at SpeZ|a | The blast shook buildings in | Poucecoupe, B. C., six miles south. LONDON, Feb. 15—RAF squa-| 1t js not known how the three g:"ox;s g::::mgb Ger]many and Italy| yictims met death and they were s s i ey "fi;‘“m 2t~ not immediately identified. Neither oge . A an 1850 oouq details concerning the six missing persons be learned imme- diately. The Dawsofi Hotel, Frontier Lum- ber Company's yard, Dominion Gov- ernment Telegraph office and other were burned to the A. E, Lind and Ernest Stewart. rails 29.30, utilities 17.27. | |ton throughout- the night handling - BYBOMBERS Two-hour Refi Is Made on Japanese Naval Base in New Brifain ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 15—In the greatest mass bomber raid carried out by the Allied Nations in this |war theatre, more than 30 heavy bombers rained upwards of 50 toris of explosives and 3,500 incendiary bombs early yesterday on the Jan- ianese naval base at Rabaul, New | Britain. land Liberators attacked the city jand its harbor for more than two hours. Huge and numerous fires were started, the official communique stated, and it is known several ships in the harbor were heavily damaged. SENATE PASSES FOUR MEASURES AFTERNOON MEET The Senate passed four bills this afternoon including House bill No. 8 which repeals the law prohibiting persons earning $200 a month or more with the Territory from tak- ing outside employment. Other measures passed included Senate bill No. 4, sponsored by Sen- ator Hjalmer Nordale, to clarify the Territory’s position in connec- tion with claims against deceased persons’ estates; House joint mem- orial No. 2 urging Congress to act on a bill to pay net salaries to U. S. Commissioners; House bill No. 12, | | _;George Hayes, Bernard Hoffman, Jones averages: industrials 128.60, relating to filing of birth certi- ! ficates. Four waves of Flying Fortresses | | AP Features Since the Nazis declared war on Russia on June 22, 1941, the lines of battle have moved east in summer, west in winter. The first year, the initiative was mainly with the Nazis; but so far in the second year, the Reds have managed to tal he Nazi blows and deliver increasingly powerful ones of their own. And to the above chart can now be added the recapture of Stalingrad and the latest conquest, the capture of Rostov. New OPA Chief Going To E nforce By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—It may be just talk, but Washington hears |—That there will be little change lin OPA policy or personnel now |that Prentiss M. Brown has taken the reins from Leon Hender- son. Brown has ind ed one of |his primary objectives will be to !make clear to the public why price over |control and rationing must be en-| forced with Brown is almost as popular i Congress as Henderson was unpopular, and observers say that !the absence of Cong ional criti- |cism will go far toward giving the new administrator the kind of pub- lic favor he will need to put over the price control and ration pro- gram. That the ban on “pleasure driv- ing” is to be made nationwide. Re- ports on effectiveness of the pro- gram in the 17 eastern states and District of Columbia are not in vet but indications are that it has t done more to save rubber and gaso- line than anything else that ha: been devised. That War Manpower Commis- sioner. Paul V. McNutt's declara- tion that women would not be called up to register now and would not be drafted was a stop-gap de- cision, designed primarily to give the women a chance to get into Control of industry and the armed forces of their own volition, The opinion here had been that the threat of re- gistration and possibly selective service had slowed down voluntary action. The draft of women into the military forces and war indus- tries will ke the final step in all- out mobilization. That the United States scrap is being extended America, North Africa and the Pacific. The insatiable war dustries of the U. 8. must be fed with raw materials, even if they bave to be shipped over hazardous sea-lanes at costs that would, in peace-times, exceed their value That instruments, small parts and accessories are now the chief short- ages threatening maintenance of production schedulés in the war industries, and that future priority will be aimed particularly at as well as at relief of the thetic rubber and high-octane rasoline industries, drive for to South even in- That small business is going to get some real relief soon. Not since war began has “small business” had SO many representatives in Wash- ington, and some are making them- selves heard. As one of these ex- (Continued on Page Three) U-BOATBASE IS SMASHED Prices andMRaIioning5 AT LORIENT ‘Brifish Send Two Raiding Parties Over Last Night LONDON, Feb. 15.-Royal Air Force planes unloaded more than a thousand tons of bombs on the German U-boat base at Lorient last night in two attacks, the Air Min- istry repprts. Stirling, Halifax and Lancaster bombers participated in the twin raids, and bombers and fighters smashed objectives in France and Holland again today with Mosquito bombers hitting railway workshops and engine sheds at Tours. When the- last bombs dropped over Lorient, the “dock buildings and installations were being eaten up by flames with red smoke billowing across the target,” returning pilots reported. The RAF new deadly Typhoon fighters were credited with shoot- ing down four Fockewulf 190s in the flights over the channel. Two British planes were reported miss- ing were - Ninety-five per cent of the in- habitants of Honduras are a mix- ture of Spanish and Indian, ‘mumque reported the Red Army | forces were only seven miles from 1 Kharkov., > — BOMB JAP - BASES IN - SOLOMONS Shortland Islands Hit-Nips Lose Eight Planes, We l_o§¢_a Six WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Ameri- can airmen bombed a Japanese cargo ship and shot down eight Zeros at the cost of six American planes in a raid Saturday on the strategic Shortland Islands in the northwestern Solomons. Four American planes were lost to enemy fighters, and two were j.shm. down by Jap anti-aircraft fire, the Navy said. The Navy affirmed previous re- ports from the Southwest Pacific that ground troops killed 6,066 Japs and captured 127 in the final 25- day drive on Guadalcanal. Resistance encountered on the Shortland Islands raid indicated the enemy is strengthening posi- tions there. The Japs sent up a force of 45 Zero fighters to inter- cept the American assault. | ® o 00 0 0 0 0 0o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 5:54 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 8:30 o’clock. Dimout begins Tuesday at sunset at 5:56 p.m. eec 000000 | |