The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9270. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 [, {4 5 EV]F.MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ ——= AMERICAN FORCES LOSE BIGTANKBATTLE Russians Smash Ahead3 6'MilesAgainstNazis RED ARMY PUSHES ON, BIG FRONT Drive on Pfiof German! Reireat Over Dead Bod- |es—Take Another City MOSCOW, Feb. 18 — Smashing heavily at German troops along a path of retreat covered with Nazi bodies, the Russians have driven| 36 miles northwest of Kharkov to| seize Bogodukhov on the Kharkov- | Sumy railroad. | The Soviet army’s winter of- fensive pounded ahead elsewhere on a 400-mile front, from above Kurek | to Rostov, with heavy blows being struck at “remnants of the routed | German - units” near Kharkov. The Russians say that the “Hit-| lerite patch of retreat is covered with bodies of dead enemy officers apd men and abandoned German light and heavy arms.” The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S, Allen on dctive duty.) How Helen Keller Helps Sell AP Features ALTHOUGN she has been blind and deaf since the age ot 19 months, Miss Helen Keller sees vividly the issues at stake in the war. In this letter she tells how everyone can help to win it. Miss Keller finds it easier to print than write, and uses a mflul quide that enables her to keep the lines even. WASHINGTON.—The vote on the War Mobilization Bill to re- vamp the jittery War ' Produumm Board and put certain Army-Navy ptoduction under civilian conlroli PR { No Rationing was one of the most significant in | ten’ .years of the Roosevelt Ad- | Lo' Shoes ministration. 1 Gl ‘fOI Ala!ki “This vote, which transferred the bfil from the Education and L'nbor| Commjttee to the Military Affairs Committee, saw the President ap- pealing to Republican leaders — Sénators McNary, Bridges, Lodge— to defeat his old New Deal friends. | It saw him falling back on Old Deal Democrats who have bitterly attacked him—Byrd of Virginia, Réynelds of North Carolina, Tyd- | ings of Maryland—to get their sup- port. And the ‘men Roosevelt slapped down in this vote were those who had gone down the line for him when the going was really tough —on labor legislation, on neutval-! ity revision: on social reform—men like Pepper of Florida, Thomas of Utah, Xiljgoie of West Virgiaia, Murray of Montana, Truman Oti Missouri. The vote left a lot of sour| faces in the Senate and may mean | a gradual new line-up. For some New Dealers now declare they are . finished with the ‘“rubber-star:p”! KAREN MORLEY, screen ac- | act. | tress, above, has .sued Director | Charles Vidor for divorce, charg- ing cruelty. A settlement would give her custody of their son. bucs fnlm Director | SEATTLE, Feb. 18. The Office of War Information here has been advised by Rupert Emerson, Regional Director of Territories and Possessions, that Alaska is exempt from shoe rationing. Dealers may transfer shoes from the states to the territory without rationing certificates. The announcement is made to allay the concern of Al kans who, deprived of trans- portation facilities that prevail in the cities and towns throughout the nation, wear out more shoes per person than do the residents of Seattle, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, or South Bend, Indfana. Not only are men, women and cl ren of the northern terri- ‘ tory exempt from the rationing order, but no difficulty is an- Aicipated in \suprlymg Alaska's shoes needs and no impedi- ment in supphes is expected. CANNED FISH, cused of Working Serb Guerilla Chieftain Ac-j | with Axis | canned meats. ; The ban on the sale of px'oducbs,' including canned sal- mon, shrimp, meat spreads and many others, was made indefinite although sales will probably be per- mitted again when meat rationing begins about March 26. The action was taken in response to a request by Seeretary of Agri- culture, Claude R. Wickard, who by ’:some of the President’s best a civilian umpire. This aroused ier- door session of the Military Affairs yyugoelay government - here, form- tled up. |ing the war.” said that purchases during recent / 'BRASS HAT IRE | Here is the Inside story of wint| happened. ‘fhe War Mobilization |~ Fill ‘had be»n carefully prepared S l p friends. They held months of hear- | QVIe u's ings, wrote the bill after dnhgem,‘ painstaking study. It set up ma- chipery to referee the chionic hat- | {Mng betwéen the Army, Navy,| Maritime Commission and Mr. Jef- | férs as to whether critical mater- | ials would go to airplanes, rubbei | n e po fdctories, escort vessels, etc. i PfObablll'Y Order Will Be JIn settling this battle, the bill ptoposed to take away some pro- l.l"ed When Mea' Ra' duction powers from: the Army aid Rots sot the A"t bands ‘of tioning Starts Mar. 26 rific brass hat ire. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. — The So the Army-Navy lobby got into | Office of Price Administration has full swing. And two weeks ago, young Republican Senator Lodge LOND Feb. 18—The London of Massachusetts, whom the Presi- p ;0 Hg:ld dald t?:e S:uet jons dent tried to defeat, told a closed-{orymeng pas sent a note to the Committée how certain high-upb ally aceusing Draja Mihailovich, Army-Navy officials had appealed serb guerilla chieftan, with col- to him. They had asked him to try laborating with the Axis. to have the War Mobilization Bill| The newspaper described the re- referred to the Military Affairs port as the “most difficult inter- Committee where it could be bot- Allied situation that has arisen dur- Ordinarily the bill would be re- The report said the Soviet note ferred to the Senate Education and ‘Cld the Yugoslav government in Labor Committee, which had heard exile that it has proof of its charg- witnesses before, and knew thc ©5 against Mikailovich. - bRt e >-ee (Continued on Page Four) 1 BUY WAR BONDS no canned fish and meat for con- |sumption later in the year. - - BUY WAR BONDS CANNED MEAT SALES BANNED suspended sales of canned fish and | these | weeks threatened to leave little or | AMERICAN | SUBS SINK FIVE SHIPS Also Reporf Enemy Cruiser. Probably Sunk in Re- cent Actions WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-—Amer- (ican submarines operating against the enemy in the Pacific have sunk |five enemy ships and probably |sunk another, a cruiser, and dam- |aged a-cargo ship, the Navy an-| | nounced | | With the exception of a medium- |~ | sized cargo ship reported damaged, lall of the vessels hit in the latest |submarine fo! > classed |as auxiliaries ol the enemy fleet, Besides the cruiser reported dam- ‘Jurd and probably sunk, the enemy | | vessels included one medium-sized |tanker, a mediur-sized transport, | two medium-sized cargo ships sunk lJnd one escort vessel sunk. INCREASE -~ QUOTAON ~ HALIBUT - ‘Calch Will Be Fifty Million, Five Hundred Thousand | Pounds This Year SEATTLE, Feb. 18—The Inter- {national Fisheries Commission has |lifted this year'’s North Pacific ;l\:\hbul catch quota a million | pounds to 50,500,000 pounds to pro- lvide more fish for wartime needs. | The season opens April 16. The |increase was made possible because |jof a slight improvement in stocks of fish, A small increase of 700 pounds will be “allowed for Area Three | which extends from Cape Spencer !to Cape Sagak in the Aleutians, and the rest of the increased catch will be permitted in Area Two |which extends from Willapa Har- bor on the coast of Washington to {Cape Spencer, always the heaviest producer. MARRIED “MEN PERHAPS SLATED . FOR DEFERMENT ! House Mimry Affairs { Commitiee Approves of Kilday Bill | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—By a {25 to 2 vote, the House Military | Affairs Committee this afternoon approved the Kilday Bill to give {men with children draft deferment | priority and puts the selective draft | quotas on a statewide instead of local board basis NO AGREEMENI IS-REACHED IN . R.R. WAGE CASE CHICAGO, Feb. 18—Wage nego- tiations between the representatives of the railroads and the leaders of the 350,000 members of the five operating brotherhoods were ter- minated without reaching an agree- ment, according to Phil Otterback, spokesman for the carriers. The services of the national rail- way mediation board have been in- voked jointly by both sides and mediation processes will be institut- 'ed in Chicago tomorrow. J kaey Is Key to Possible Second Front UNITED NATIONS, INCLUDING TERR- ITORY OCCUPIED AND RETAKEN AXIS POWERS TERRITORY OCCUPIED OR CONQUERED BY THEAXIS ALLIED WITH THE AXIS NEUTRAL GREAT' BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S recent conferences with Turkish officials at Adana thrust neutral Turkey, biggest power in the Balkans, into the news spotlight, Churchill reached an agreement, with only one point named—a plan whereby Britain and the United States would be “able to help Turkey materially to consolidate her own general security.” However, observers point out that Turkey could be the key, if she swung over to the Allies’ side, of a campaign to open a second front in Europe and smash Hitler's control of the continent. Turkey's European frontier touches Greece and Bulgaria, countries occupied by the Axis. Map above, self-explanatory, shows how Turkey's po- sition is suategically vital to Allies and a serious threat to Axis if any moves are made from the east. Thelaps Landed---Dead DEADLOCKIN LEGISLATURE SEEN TODAY . Battle Slarts When House Won't Accept Bill | - from Senate | The strong possibility of a dead- lock between Alzska's legislative houses that would stall practically all legislation, rode into the legis- lative halls today on the wings of the eagle bounty repeal bill | Unless the House backs up and ~ agrees to accept the repeal bill| from the Senate, the deadlock is 'expected to begin tomorrow. The battle began when the Sen- | ate yesterday afternoon suspended the rules and reconsidered the| bounty repeal bill which the Sena-| tors had killed the day beforc.‘ Yesterday, however, the repeal bul‘ was passed by a 5-3 vote. Speaker James V. Davis refused to accept the bill in the House this morning however, sending it |back to the Senate on the grounds | that the Senate Journal on file in lthe House showed only that the | bill had been killed by a tie vole on Tuesday. The records showing | the reconsideration vote, brought | about * yesterday upon the request (of Senator H. H. McCutcheon and | | protested by Senator Ed Coffey, were not received in the Hou: until late this afternoon. The rec- | was written on the back of the To Be Only Chatfer | Administration followers when he caid that out of the something un- der 3000000 federal employ 1,600,000 were doing actual war work. These,” he said, ers in navy yards, arsenals ige depots military airfields ther operating centers.” A helmeted U. S. trooper ®ooks over a Jap landing barge and the bodies of three Nipponese soldiers who were killed trying to land the con- traption on a beach at Buna Mission in New Guinea. Kicked Back So the bill was kicked back to the Senate. When the matter came up in the Senate this afternoon, Senator N R. Walker laheled the Hou: re- | ‘/fusal to accept the bill an “un-' precedented event, e o e “Never before,” - he said, stor- | oPe house refused to accept a bill and {rom the other‘house If the action of the House on this measure pre- vails, we might just as well ad- journ the Legislature right now.” the President had been givep the| President O. D. Cochran said wrong figures. They asked Elmer that he had never heard of on Javis, Office of War Information branch of the Legislature refusing director, to make a report. He did. to accept a measure from the other At that moment, there were 2,687~ branch. He said he agreed with 093 persons on the federal payroll Walker. exclusive of the military forces) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—There’s Jot of talk going around about drastic curtailments in government hiring being forced on the Admin- ictration by the new “economy bloc” in Congress. As nearly as I can find out from thore who ‘are in a position to know, this is mostly political chat- er. There is no doubt that there is lot of waste motion among ‘ederal employes. The employes hemeelves have complained of it There’s no doubt that the tidal wave i€ criticism will have some, bene- ficial results. But the opinion now s that it’s mostly sound and fury. Here's why: The President fired the first gun and gave the cue to Yare the Some dublous persons thought (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Three) |tle ;man:, in the forward fields, the re- Senator N. R. Walker then moved ° DECISIVE DEFEATTO U.S. UNIT | Refreat Is Made Across Al- gerian Border-Rom- mel Wins Victory ' MUCH EQUIPMENT IS REPORTED CAPTURED ‘ Montgomery s Forces Are * Moving Up fo Save Situation in North ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 18—Ameri- can formations have withdrawn to the mountains below Tebessa, Al- geria, after receiving a severe maul- ing at the hands of Rommel’s ex- pert and desperate tankmen who have occupied the towns of Sbeitla, Kasserine and Feriana in the 60- mile advance since last Sunday from Faid Pass in central Tunisia. Tebessa is about 12 miles inside Algeria from the Tunisian frontier. Decisive Defeat In the first all-out armored bat- of this war against thé Ger- ports indicate that American tank | formations suffered a decisive de- feat. Observers here likened the de- feat to that received by the British | Eighth Army at Ain El' Fazala, west of 'Ibruk last summer, when Rom- mel began his advance toward ngpt The result did not appear ‘likely to be serious on the Libyan battle front last summer, however, |because the British First Army in the north was advancing and the | Eritish Eighth Army in the south was moving up and menacing Rom- mel’s flank. Capture Much Equipment Field reports indicate the Ger- ‘mans in this last battle have cap- tured a considerable portion of the | American armored equipment in- 'cluding new medium tanks. It is Inot known how much of this equip- ment Rommel will be able to repair Jor use, or how great his losses, which must have been heavy. It is however, generally conceded 4Comlnued on Psge Two) SETBACK IS (ONFIRMED BY STIMSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson to- night said the American forces in Central Tunisia have suffered a “serious local setback that should not be minimized but still less ex- aggerated.” The War Secretary said reports received up to tonight are incom- plete. He told the newsmen that American forces have apparently suffered rather heavy casualties both in personne! and equipment land a number of tanks have been destroyed, German dive bombers have been in the fighting for the .)u.\l four days and hitting “our MUNDA BOMBED WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Ameri- can bombers made two more as- ults On the' northern 4ren ¢ ik Solomons today and crashed Mun- da, starting large fires. L I I DIMOUT TIMES L e o o . . Dimout begins tonight e ® atl sunset at 6:01 o'clock. . ¢ Dimout ends tomorrow e @ at sunrise at 8:22 am. . ® Dimout begins Friday at sun- e ot av 6:03 pm . *e e ecdose oo A