The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9271. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1943 MI;MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY — MERICANS NOW ENTRENCHED, ALGERIA Mzghty Soviet MANY MORE U.S.Planning J.S. Planning Mortal TOWNS ARE Attack on Japan from RECAPTURED Alaska, Japs Are Told direct telephone connec- tions between Alaska and China Yahagi described the air field construction and telephone work as [ tions for | (By Associated Press) Retreating armans Are| The Japanese radio has broadcast a warning to the Japanese people i g g! ria es arters Dnven Toward Sea ‘Flim. l-(lll:ehUrxxir;zflsl:;le:{u‘d})qfi::l;:g “attempted ro]nfm'c_ement of air- Coast Toda la “mortal attack upon the main- Planes to the continent from Al-| y land of Japan” and that it will|aska. i come from the north. | He warned that according to MOSCOW, Feb. hitting Red Army, 19—The hard- smashing de-' Roosevelt's recent message, Am- crica is preparing to make 1943 the chief of the de- Col. Japanese Nakao Yahagi, Army press section, fense in Orel Province, has captured clared in a speech today that Alas-|year for final battles in decisive Zalegosch only 30 miles east of ya js to be the headquarters for war. Orel on the railway from Yelets. gttacks against Japan. “I{ appears they are going to Several other unidentified lines al- so were taken by the highly mobile Soviet troops operating 10 miles be- hind the broken front line in this make Dutch Harbor and Hawaii into strongholds from which they will move forward with the unity of their respective forces,” Yahagi He cited there have been “almost daily bombings” of Japanese forces in the Aleutians by United States planes as one reason for this pre- sector. | diction. said One of these unidentified cities He said the United States is He also foresaw the possibility may be Taganrogs, several miles!pyilding “17 new air fields” in that Midway Island might be used northwest of Rostov. The capture of Matveev-Kurgan, 25 miles north of the Sea of Azov,| port of the railroad to Goxlovkn, also is in Russ hands today. | In the western Caucasus the Red Army continued to drive the Ger- (Continued on ;;ééifio3 The Washingion| Merry - Go- Round\ REW PEARSON H G e €, 15 Sl e !Presndenl On . 'Air Next after his return from Casnblanca\Monday "Igh' was a sober, serious diagnosis of | the war leavened with occnsimmH wf‘s“'NGTON' Fe'f' 19. — R veltian humor. President Roosevelt will make an address next Monday night ' Among other things he spoke at | 4 to the George Washington din- bout hi: Liberia | Yoyt abayt. Tus vinl (o ners throughout the Nation. f , Ed-| Su fn iExebidint ot LinaH The address will be broadcast w‘.x.ll ::::l:eyry much impressed w:th on all major networks at 7:30 | p.m., Pacific wartime. tor aerial assault on Tokyo. | {China and are making prepara- Goebbels Warns Natis | - Of Terrible Threat of New Russian Advances .| NEW YORK, Feb. 19—Nuazi Pro- | paganda Minister Paul Joseph | Goebbels told the German people {in a radio broadcast picked up by | |the Associated Press in New York, |that he had to tell them the “un-| | varnished truth” about Germanya situation on the Eastern Front, Said Goebbels, “it is not the mo-| ‘m(m for asking questions as to| {how it happened. There is no time | for useless discussions, We must, act immediately and thoroughly.” The Propaganda Minister told of what he called “cruel truth” to the WASHINGTON —The President’s report to Congressional leaders He said “we must act quickly and\ | thoroughly or it might be too late.| | | The danger is imminent. There is| ’nol a moment for asking questions ! ‘as to how it happened.” | IN SEATTLE e e PLANE CRASH NEW CRUISER JUNEAUNOW | BEING BUILT (Mayor Lucas Informed of ! News in Leffer from | Frank Knox Secretary af the Navy Frank | Knox informed Mayor Harry I. (Lucas today that a new cruiser \U. 8. 8. Juneau is being built to| !replace the old Juneau, st in ac- him,” said the President, adding !German people, that the “motor-| that he was a man with about‘ o o SRR |ized robot divisions” of the Red seven-eighths Negro blood. Army have “broken loose with a Then with a grin in the direc- 1 4 K I l l E D power eclipsing all imagination.” | tion toward his very good mendw Senator Alben Barkley of Xen- tucky, he added: “By the way, Alben, this Barclay also has a Kentucky strain. His | ancestors came from Kentucky. | They were slaves.” The President went on to tell' about ' Liberia's election laws bvw which only those Liberians whose ancestors were American slaves are | permitted to vote. In his report on the war fronts,! Rdosevelt's soberest remarks were addressed to the submarine prob- lem. The details of what he said cannot be revealed, except that sci- entists from all over the Umwd? States had been called in to try\ to lick the submarine. The Presi- dent made no effort to minimize the -~ pessimistic statements previ- ously made by some of his naval men, and obviously agreed with| them about the seriousness of the U-boat menace. The one hopeful situation was the Pacific, where we were losing much less shipping to Jap subs. Huge Four-Mofored Bomb-' er Hits Frye Pack- ing Building SEATTLE, Feb. 19—The crash of |a Boeing four-motored bomber in- |to the Frye Packing plant here; |1ate yesterday claimed at least 14| lives. The crash was attributed by‘ the Boeing Company to a “fire which developed in an engine in | the course of a regular test flight.”| Among those killed was Edmund T. Allen, nationally famed test pi- lot and Director of Flight Aero-! | dynamics for Boeing. Charles Blaine. |a flight engineer, and Harry Ral- | ston, another Boeing engineer al- {86 were among the 11 pariche whojuon in the Solomons last November. | |lost their lives aboard the plane.|m1x;::: :frmzk:gicga:filbg:v”‘iz Two employees of the packing|under construction in San Fran- plant were killed when the hugecisco and the date of the launch- warplane crashed, and one victim|ing will be announced later. has not been identified. The new Juneau is among 11 GIRAUD VS. DE GAULLE One point which left a deep im- pression on his Congressional lead- ers was the difficulty the Presi-| dent and Churchill had in getting Gen. De Gaulle and Gen. Giraud together. After about six days of - 'were damaged off New Guinea. imiles and resulted in the shooting | {France and Belgium were the con- |ing aside the President’s MAKERAIDS IN SOLOMONS Japanese Ships, ln(Iuding; Cruiser Aftacked-Fires Set at Airdrome ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 19. — Today’s, communique told of a hcnvy two- hour raid on Buin in thé Solomon | Islands and attacks on Japanese ships, including a cruiser, off Por-| tugese Timor, New Britain, and New Guinea. One cargo ship was attacked by, a heavy bomber off Cape Orford,| New Britain, and another 5,000-ton Berlin - GERMANY ship was strafed in New. Britain's Rein Bay. Four launches and a | schooner | i HOW EUROPE HAS BEEN INVADED Warsaw (POI.AND) SENG & s KHAN SNANNNT H R o TURKEY Allied medium bombers near Dili | attacked a Japanese cruiser, but‘ the results are not reported. | A running fight between five Japanese Zero planes and Allied | bombers extended over a hundred | The area held by the Nazi great invasion routes of history. down of two of the Jap planes and | the loss of one bomber | AP FEATURES A heavy raid was made on the| m.m whichever - direction r‘um\ Kahili airdrome in the 50l0- | ;hited Nations sweep into the mrn Islands. Fires were started|ngpi neld continent of Europe, they {which leaped 500 feet in the air| g find an historical precedent and were visible for 50 miles. NO g0 their fnvasion planes were lost. | 1 they choose to invade by way of North Africa, they can profit- ably study the past campaigns of RA OAR | Hannibal, the Moors and the Van- | the dals. Hannibal, (now Tunis) in 221 B.C. crossed {into Spain, went through the Pyre- nees and the Rhone, with his ele- phants pushed through the Alps in 15 days, and headed for Rome The Romans routed him in 207 B.C., however, and then struck —_— across the Mediterranean at Car- - H (Imge, successfully invading the Wilhelmshaven Is Again invacer. The Moors, holding all North Af- |rica, conquered Spain, breeched the Pyrenees and aimed at northern France. At Tours they were de- feated in 1732 by Charles Martel of the Franks, and were chased back into Spain. Battered-Other Allied Craft Make Raids (By Associated Press) RAF hbombers roared back to again attack Wilhelmshaven last night while other allied aircraft at- 5 “:,'r‘:":";]:"::igl‘::;‘y Es tacked rail lines on the continent S AP e ¥ & and shipping off the coast. The what is now Germany, went via British Air Ministry said that sev- Spain to N(‘)ll]l Africa, subdued en planes, including four bombers, Corthage, gained control of the were lost. Mediterranean, and in 455 into Rome. For 14 days they that ecity, committing history’s first ct of “vandalism”-—looting all the sat treasures that could be re- The attack on Wilhelmshaven was particularly heavy as the bombers were aided by good weather. The Germans broadcast a com- muique which declared that in the moved. The Vandals also estah- raid on Wilhelmshaven “the popu- lished themselves in Sicily, Sar- lation, particularly in surrounding dinia, Corsica and the Balear! localities, suffered losses” and Invasion via Norway has a prece- claimed that nine bombers were dent in the Norseman. Sea-going downed. raiders, they moved onto the French The Germans also stated that the coast in the ninth century and es- railway canal and rail lines intablished bases from which to pil- Jage Paris. Charles the Simple of France in 912, gave the duchy of et Normandy to the Norse Chief Rol- lo as a bribe to cease his attacks. Across the English Chanel, a pos- Tax Proposal of sible avenue of invasion today, the E 1) t to Fi 3} il dur- FDR Turned Down =:ic» sveee oo erene soifaue WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Brush- | 453, They took Calais, battered tinental targels recom- | (ASIA MINOR) Europe has often been Riftin Democralic Congressional Ranks | | starting from Carthage '_ Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, and had victory in sight when Joan of Arc turned the war tide by rais- ing the siege of Orleans in 429. The Hordes of Asia The mightiest invasions of Eu- rope have come by way of Asia acr the plains of Russia, through areas in which the Soviets are now battering the Nazis, Among the many invading tribes were the Huns, who came from behind the Volga under Attjla to ravage the 'area between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. In 451 the Huns |invaded Gaul but Rome’s Imperial vForces united with the Visigoths and the Franks to hurl them back at Troyes. Next year, Attila swept into Italy's Po Valley but was per- suaded by Pope Leo I to retire be- hind the Alps. The Huns gradually tamed and submerged themselves in the native populations. The Mongols, under Genghis Khen and his son Ogdai, also swept in from Asia. They subdued vir- tually all Russia, ravaged Poland, wiped out an army of Poles and Germans at Liegnitz in 1241 but did not advance farther, choosing instead to return to aid another Mongol army fighting in China. The Middle East an | invasion springboard for the Otto- man Turks, who came from nor- thern Asia Minor to conquer the | Balkan Peninsula. In 1521, under Suleiman the Magnificent, they took Belgrade and later conquered Hungary and besieged Vienra. They were not pushed out of Hungary until 1687. served as mendations for a super tax largu wnrume 1ncumes. the Hou.sx Lo— effort they were finally able to get them to shake hands and pose for the photographers. While the President was opti- mistic regarding the military situ- ation in North Africa, he went into detail regarding the difficulty of getting heavy tanks through the mud until the terrain had dried. While the rains usually stop in March or April, they have been known to continue until June. The President also explained that Churchill was handling all the ne- gotiations with Turkey because the British were closer to the Turkish picture than the United States. Four of the occupants of the|ships now bein A g built to replace plane were klllednt‘wlng to para-|those lost in sea action in rgcent\ chute to safety. The ship was t00 months, all bearin; | close to the ground, however, and ijes. o the chutes failed to open. Although it is believed th e launch-/| A statement issued by the Boe-|ing will be held next year, the date | ing officials said the fire in the is regarded as a military secrel plane’s engine was temporarily ex- e e tinguished by automatic carbon dioxide equipment but flared up CHUR(HI[{ lll i again and spread out over one wing. The bomber reported its trouble by radio as it was approaching Boeing Field for an emergency LONDON, Feb. 19.—Prime Min-| ter Winston Churehill is %ton- | fined to bed with an acute catarrh | landing when it lost altitude and crashed into the packing plant in Seattle’s south end, speading flames ist 4nd destruction through the four- | “In the same way” the Presi-|story building. lot: the upber. resol dent explained, “all negotiations| Several employes were trapped | po ?pfd PSRN |pssages with China are being carried on|in the flaming structure. The s e B_Sndomat [stucd 4 from No. 10, Downing Street, said (Continued on Page Four). “(Continued on Page Two) today. . |Jones averages: |rails 2950, utilities 16.89 | day rmmrmed approval of the Inll to repeal the President’s executive {limiting salaries, after taxes are R e [paid. to 525,000 aunually | eto’ In SIO(K QUOTATIONS i EW YORK, Feb 19. — Closing ! q\mtnllon of Alaska Juneau mine b/ 54 stock today is 37, American Can By JACK STINNETT 181, Anaconda 26%, Commonwealth WASHiN(JTON Feb. 19—When |and Southern %, General Motors piecident Roosevelt delivered his |47', International Harvester 59 ‘emessage to Congress, he inadvert- |Kennecott 31%, Northern Pacific yntly left out the achievement of 9, United States Steel 51%, Pound (he Maritime Commission in sur- $4.04. passing his 1942 shipbuilding goals. The mnext glay he explained that the figures Were dropped accident- DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ly from his speech. That belated industrials 126.67, announcement was anti-climax. It j).s only now that the actual accom- ake 1942; Big Program Gels Praise Com- coming plishments of the Maritime mission in 1942 are really to light. This is all the more important because Admiral Emory S. Land chairman, and his commission have been under fire repeatedly. Charges ranging from incompetency through unfair treatment of labor to pol- itical log-rolling have been laid al (Continued on ‘E“afie “Five) { | determined Causes Deep Concern By JOHN GROVE 1t’s going to take a political mae- stro to evoke harmony from the Democratic party organ in this session of Congress. In the minds of veteran servers, that was the clear impli- cation of the intramural warfare in the pre-withdrawal battle over| confirmation of Ed Flynn as min-| ister to Ausartlia. The seperate com- ponents of the Democratic party are out of tune. Press polls of the Senate indi- cated Flynn would have been re- jected as the result of Democratic defection. Behind that fact are interesting angles that point to de- finite trends in the current Con- gress, Tirst, 1938 purge chickens are coming home to roost. The Presi- dent’s ill-starred attempt to erase New Deal dissidents in that elec- tion still pankles. It didn’t make so much difference in the 1939 and 1941 sessions. The Democratic ma- jority was so wide the handful of purge-designates could not make their weight count, but they may well constitute the balance of pow- er in this Senate. forgotten 1938, as indicated by the Flynn poll. South on Warpath Second, Southern Democrats are on the warpath. They argue with come logic that they are the hard core of the party. In lean years, they make all the party yardage in Capitol Hill scrimmages. They open- | city Democratic | machines and New Deal latecomers | getting a dis-| proportionate share of party power. ' When Boss Crump of Mempm:‘ ly aver that big 1o the party fold Tenn., cause publicly deserted the Flynn it was a tipoff. The week | before, Dixie Democrats in the House torpedoed Administration plans (o seat Rep. Vito Marcanton- io (AL-N. Y.) on the Judiciary Committee. The Southern bloc is to force from the Administration. With the Demceratic majority narrowed to a thin line in both houses, they've got the tickets to make their de- mands stick. Crump’s defection is the first public revolt of a power- ful southern Democratic organiza- tion against the will of the party chief Third, the solid Republican lines up against Flynn is clear notice that Minority Leader Charles Mc- Nary, the astute Oregon veteran, has his cohorle under disciplined control. They're ready to throw a (Continued on Page Five) _{the Allied troops in Africa, ob- | They haven't| concessions | War Machine Rolling Onward U.5. BOMBERS BRITISHON | BOTH SIDES ~ OFROMMEL fAIIied Lines Norih of Axis Forces Are Being Readjusted (By Associated Press) The American troops are report- ed today to be holding strong de- fense positions in the hills below Tebessa, 12 miles within Algeria to where the Americans were forced to retreat after a sudden attack by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's armored divisions in the Faid Pass sector. | At the same time, a German broadcast reported Rommel's thrust deep in the middle of the Allied front in Libya as having “broken" the line. British Move Up Meanwhile, both .the British Eighth and First armies are re- ported moving up on both flanks in a developing north and south struggle. Gen. Eisenhower, cemmander of said that after four days of battle there was ‘“very little activity” on the centyal Tunistan front yesterday. Front dispatches ref “Alliled lines north of the newly-carved Axis salient are being “readjusted” |to meet the situation, French troops have withdrawn from Pichon, 40 miles north of Fald Pass where the Germans started their drive last Sunday. This is apparently a move to straighten out the weing out-flanked. | Air Fighting In the air, Allied warplanes ulasted at Axis troops which have driven almost to the Tunisiane Algerian frontier, In the south, a bulletin from Gen. Montgomery’s headquarters sald the British Eighth Army's | troops yeSterday oceupied Tata- |houine, at the southern end of «he 60-mile Mareth line within 24 hours after patrols scouted the area, indicating little or no oppo- sition because the British men- tioned no fighting in capturing the outpost, LEGISLATURE DEADLOCKED OVER RULES ' Senate De-(Ti—nes fo Do Business — House | Won't Take Bill | BULLETIN—Shortly before 4 | o'clock this afternoon the House voted, 15 to 1, to accept the Eagl='s Bounty bill and the deadlock is broken. Davis cast | the dissenting vote. line to avoid A definite deadlock held sway |over the Legislature today with the | Senale declining to take action on any House measures and also re- fusing to send any more Senate bills to the House until a matter of the rules regarding the question of reviving killed bills is settled. The deadlock has arisen over the matter of a bill to repeal the bounty ton eagles. It was killed by a tie vote in the Senate Tuesday, revived ‘Continued on Pnn ’l'hree) e & o & 0 0 0o 0 0 0 o0 . IMOUT TIMES . . . e Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 6:03 o'clock. [ 13 e Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 8:19 am. . ® Dimout begins Saturday at e ® sunsct at 6:05 p.m . ® 0 00 0 000 000 0o il