The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1943, Page 1

VOL. LX., NO. 9274. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1943 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPBIRE ~_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE_TEN CENTY MURDEROUS AMERICAN FIRE STOPS NAZLS Five Jap CentersInSolomons Heavily Bombed EXTENSIVE 'Stalin Says Red RAIDS MADE BY ALLIES . . . | MOSCOW, 'Feb. 23.—“The Red Hits Scored in Wide SWeep army atone is vearing the whote | weight of the war," declared Pre- —No Interception Re- ported Encountered In “the absence of a second front ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN in Europe” Stalin asserted thatthe | AUSTRALIA, Feb. 23—Allied war Reds have inflicted 9 million casu- planes, sweeping wide over the New 'alties on the Germans. Four mil- Guinea and New Britain Islands, lion Germans have been killed.” plastered at least five Jap centers| “The start of a mass drive of the with bombs yesterday. enemy from Soviet lands has be- Hits were made especially at Lae, gun " he added Buin, Gasmata and Lorengau, the| calling on the official communique states and fur- ¢he Germans no ther says no attempts at interven- | 'mier Joseph Stalin in issuing the lorder of the day on the Red Army's |25th anniversary today Soviets “to give rest by day or by Bears Whole Weight of War; Plain Talk Given night” and to “annihilate H:.‘::,;}» SpeakS 'rom cap“al on PRESIDENT WARNS OF REVERSES Army - refuse to lay down Stalin warned that Germany has not yet been conquered and the Soviet victories do not mean that the Nazis “cannot recover.” Stalin indicated that the goal of the Red Army is to free Soviet lands of the invader. He gave no 5 52 indication of any further aims. He | @ Washington's Birthday mes- listed the German losses as 7,000 “38¢ last night that we “still face reverses and misfortunes tanks, 4,000 planes, 17,000 guns, ;md‘ The President compared the re- vast quantities of other war ma-|action to the ‘“great successes on terials in three months of Soviet|the Russian Front” with that fol- {lowing the American victory over | Burroyne's army of the Revolution. they George Washington's Birthday WASHINGTON, Feb. | dent 23—Pre: winter offensive. TWO ENEMY [ SUBS ARE - SENT DOWN fKnox Says Every Weapon | Being Used to Hunt U-Boats WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 The Roosevelt warned Americans sinking of two AKis submarines, & German sub in the Atlantic and !a Japanese sub in the Pacific, was ‘llumum'vd today by the Navy. | Secretary of the Navy Frank ,Kn told newsmen that every available weapon is being used to bring the Atlantic U-boat menace ¥ control, and, generally speak- g, los i e “Not enough have faith and have »s suffered by the United i vere made at any locality by H 1 e A y 4 :,?: J‘;; ¥ Y c . [ |hope.” he declared, citing Wash- jations' merchant shipping in the, wed |ington’s examples of steadfastness a, tic were ch lower during All bombers returned safely to T rrllorla am er + i i flantic were muc ower during bases. , ;f"‘d “h‘“‘“g"““ to sec the Jjob ghe past three months. However, he . rmati s 1 i [ AOUES declared, “The submarine most em- One formation of Japs lightly | He recited beatitudes from the : raided Port Moresby yesterday but| there was no damage done ond no casualties are reported. 0f Commerce Urges | Bible “to give heart and comfort |to all men and women everywhere |who fight for freedom.” S EAPG T - [ [] | At the same time, Vice-President NEW HIGH SCHOOL (e“sorSh| ouerles‘mm_v Wallace, speaking at a STUDENTS ENROLL | ’Wu.\lnngwn dinner, criticized the Two new high school students advocates of reducing the person- enrolled this morning, A. B. Phil- ~ lips, superintendent of schools, an- | | nounced today, ¢ lsmlo“ EI.E(IS ! Virginia Phillips, third year stu- | dent, is from Sitka, and Dawn H RODE" HEAD » Chapman, freshman, is a transfer from Santa Barbara Junior High ! School er s:mm. Biaihm;m Cul}r. | The Washington Changes in Membership. Merry - Go- Round: Requirements, Old-Age, - i By DREW PEARSON i Are Questions Arising | (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) Juneau delegate Henry Roden was elected and installed as Grand WASHINGTON. — In December, | President of the Grand Igloo, Pio-| 1940, Secretary of State Hull issued neers of Alaska, at yesterday after- a caustic, categoric denial that he noon’s session of the 1943 conven-; had ever offered a $100,000,000 cre- |tion. dit to Dictator Franco of Spain. With Charles W. Carter as ln-]‘ Today is published a book, “Ap- (stalling Officer and Dean chsrles: peasement’s Child” by Lieut. Tho- E. Rice as Installing Chaplain, the| mas J. Hamilton, U. S. Navy, who following other executives werei was in Spain at the time and tells Placed in office: oy in detail how the American Am- _Antonio Polet of Nome, First | bassador Alexander Weddell of- Grand Vice-President; Edgar Kerr, fered Frarico a $100,000,000 credit. of Ketchikan, Second Grand Vice- | The book is one which should be President; Dean C.. E. Rice, Grand read by everyone who wants m‘chaplain;Mrs. Lottie Spickett of Ju- ' 1« |Deau, Grand Secretary; John Reck understand the State Department’s of STHneR Grang. ) Mrsgmie e hl.s;:ry 3 Jappegseg,:,l“ o Charles W. Carter of Juneau, Grand i::h;}ortha:::i'ca T A TMAnY | pecorder; Wallace Porter of Nome, ) r d rgeant-at-Arms; and Lieut. Hamilton relates how in| o 20d Sers Grand Trustees, Mrs. H. P. Hansen | (of Ketchikan, Dave Gray of Nome, | H. H. McCutcheon of Anchorage,| the winter of 1940, Franco was riding roughshod over American in- |nel geals of the armed forces and Members of the Territorial Cham- | tiick at the altempt to “use un-| ber of Commerce last night voted to request the Legislafure to mem- |45 a wartime basis for a partison orialize Congress to reopen the| smraign to undermine confidence question of censorship of mail to|in the government.” and from the Territory and to . - - bend efforts toward securing bet- ter mail service to and from Al- aska. i | | L] L] The Chamber further went on 1ecord as favoring an open hearing on the censorship memorial when and if it comes up in the Legisla- i . . No Details of Bombing Are i | . . that there have been instances where letters which should have | leen n NaVY Dep' contained checks arrived without | H the checks after being opened by commun'que e S WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—Libera- Clip Telegrams tor heavy bombers and Mitchell medium bombers with a fighter es- Another matter brought up was cort of Lightnirfgs bombed Jap po- the fact that letters may not carrv copies of telegrams. One delegate | ions on Kiska Island yesterday morning, the Navy announced to- said that whenever he sends a fol- low-up letter Outside containing a|, cideble shortzges and restrictions ture. Representatives from all over Alaska attended last night's ses- sion in Juneau and many pointed out instances where censorship has delayed mail important to the bus- iness life of various Alaskan com- munities. One representative said iay, copy of a telegram which has al-| Al of the planes returned to ready been transmitted, the censor|their base. cuts the copy out of the letter. It was also urged that action be taken to speed up mail, particular- ly air mail. Some delegates said At the same time, Liberators at- tacked Munda, Jap base in the Sclomons. All of these planes re- turned also. This was the seventy-fourth at- phatically menace . Kn is still a very grave i said that the sinkings an- nounced today are not isolated cases but of other subs believed to have been successfully attacked (8t least a percentage have been classified only as “probably sunk.” For reasons of security the Navy Btill declines to issue the total fimber of enemy submarines de- stroyed or believed to have been destroyed. Knox said that he is sure that despite the number of Axis U-boats being destroyed, the Germans are still building them faster than they are losing them. He added that in the present situation he sees |“nothing which can predicate any jeanguine hopes of an early stop- |page or cure of the menace.” | - - > SOLDIERS TO BEPUTTO - FARMLABOR Troops in Arizona fo Help Harvest Long Staple Cotton Crop WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — The first use of military units in emer- | gency farm labor is authorized by an Army order today. ROMMEL IS i HALTED IN ~ YanksSee Wai ng Wall i [ fTanks, Infa-n‘fr); and Guns Beat Back Nazi Atfack at Slrafegic Center ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ‘N()RTH AFRICA, Feb. 23—Ameri- {can and British tanks and infantry, {in the hills north of the Kasser- |ine Gap, have stopped Marshal | Erwin Rommel's most dangerous thrust within four miles of Thala Thile. The Allied troops, with strong | American air support, are beating back the Rammel attack toward the | west. In central Tunisia, one of the [blltrx‘est battles of the Tunisian war still raged near Thala Thile, 25 miles north of the Kasserine Gap which is the gateway to the strat- egically located Kremansa plat- frontier, where British tanks and American gunners stubbornly held .« Off desperate Nazi attempts to gain the Thala Thile Road junction and crack the Allied front. On another stab from the Kas- | serine Gap toward Tebessa, 12 miles > The crew of a U. 8. Army Air Force Liberator bomber stationed in the Middle East visit the wailing wall in Jerusalem where they witch the * ’wesr. ‘of the Tuntsian-Algerian bor- jder, a Nazi column of 40 tanks, mo- i ’mrlzed infantry with mobile Jguns, ran into murderous American fire on the road winding past Djebel Hamma. The forces were bombed by continuous relays of American war- Persons Physically War Effort Immensely losing many tanks, and suffering |@ “considerable number of men.” The United 'States Twelfth Air i GOES DOWN tribute to the war effort. | The one figure that gives some| | Force, fighters and bombers, at- | indication of what is happening is| | tacked the Kasserine bottleneck all !Ame[i(an Plane Crashes in that Civil Service has taken on !(Lly yesterday, participating in more than 20 missions. more than 2,000 physically handi-| GOVERNOR g capped persons since the United| ity !.ISbOn, Poflugal, iil};kes :;l_lc(;'cd'lh(;i \:‘ul‘.h e i A bill which would vest a wide . . ‘e blind are dictaphone typists,|variety of dictatorial powers in the in Landing machines. Deaf and dumb persons|wise given to municipal'ties or Ter- LISBON, Portugal, Feb, 23—A are va_m- and operators of all ritorial agencies of the Territory— | Yankee Clipper flying from Amer- types of calculating and tabulating was introduced in the Senate this Jews praying with their heads against the ancient stones. INNETT 28 — The By JACK § WASHINGTON, Feb. Cupital in Wartime: No statistical data of any im- portance on the subject is available here yet, but one of the best labor stories of this war is the opportuni-| ties being provided the physically handicapped—the legless, armless, deaf and dumb and blind—to con- MOREPOWER |operators of punch card and other|Governor of Alaska—powers other- Chauffeurs and tri NO.AFRICA ©eu, near the Tunisian-Algerian terests, how the Fdscists were| thumbing their noses at the Unit- ed States, and how all this cul-| . minated in the stoning of the Am- that it now takes as long as 30 Leo Rogge of Fairbanks, and An-| 3 # hall 'tram e drew Gundersen of Ketchikan. {Q8vs. to. receive. 8iF | States. Mm;l“ln:n:po;ta ":;:‘ D“"'.m!:: ur- | President O. D. Cochran appoint- o y o g e a committee consisting of H: tack on Munda since November 23 Several fires were started. No details of the attack on Kiska Troops in Arizona will help har- jca via the Azores crashed on ar- machines. vest the long staple cotton crop. |yival h and sank in the Tagus drivers with one arm or an artifi- A War Department announce- piver, killing four persons. Twenty ¢lal leg are not uncommon. ment said: “The importance of this ure missing. At the same time, sfories are into |afternoon by the Senate Judiciary | Committee, | The measure contains provisions |verging on martial law. It provides " were given by the Navy. ciop as indispensable as war ma- Of the remgjning 16 passengers, Wifting Washington from | that at the written request of either - terial has impelled the War De- 13 crew members were rescued. Sev- many states that almost complete|the military or Navy commander partment’s action as a matter of ecral were hospitalized but none was = — |of such forces in Alaska, the Goy- erican Embassy by a gang of Fas- tajleq traffic facilities, the delegates ' 9 s cist students from the University vcoted to inaugurate a system de- Faulkner and I; R. Vander- | of Madrid. signed to keep active the work of | Leest of Juneau, and Hjalmar Nor- | (Continued on Page Two) “Ambassador Weddell had in-|the Grand Igloo—by limiting for| military neecessity.” injured critically. |ernor will have power to prescribe formed Serrano Suner (Spanish | Foreign Minister and Franco's brother-in-law) that a hostile dem- onstration was planned and even named the day,” writes Lieut. Ham- | flton. “No extra guards were pro-| vided, however, and even the two, usually stationed in front of the| Embassy were absent when the| gang came up and started shout- | ing its opinion of the United States. When Mr. Weddell came out, one of them grabbed his arm and tried | to hold it up in the Fascist salute.” | Then the gang began throwing| stones, and some enamel was chipped off the seal of the Unibed} States over the doorway. Weddell | immediately asked for an inter-| view to protest the incident. | DOLLARS FOR STONES | But, continues Lieut. Hamilton,' “over a week elapsed before Mr.| Weddell was able to see Franco. ... . At last, however, the interview took place, and we offered the once famous $100,000,000 credit instead of demanding «an apology. This sum was to be used for wheat, gasoline, rubber, cotton, menb—!.he five products necessary to prevent the Franco regime from collapsing. “Perhaps suspecting that some HEAD OF CIVILIAN | (Continue?i':n_ Page Five) A the most part selection of execu- _ A, ! White and negro soldiers from| The Clipper was a Boeing, the the Army posts will be used in|first one ever to crack up under the Contioued on Page Pour) | tives to those members and around Juneau. | As a further wartime measure it was also voted, to meet biennially ' instead of annually, until the re-' turn of normal times. | In the absence of the highest| ranking executives of the Gl'snd! Igloo, Charles W. Carter, Past' Grand President, called the ses- sion to order at 10 oc’lock yesterday morning. ' ‘The morning was devoted to se- lection of functioning committees, while real business of the meet was handled - with dispatch during the afternoon session. | Membership Changes Probably of greatest interest to 2ll present was the resolution ten- dered by Nome delegates, recom- | mending an amendment of the Constitution relative to require- ments for membership in the or- ganization. According to the present word- ing of the subordinate Pioneer Ig- loo Constitution, anyone wishing to make eapplication for member- ship in addition to other require- ments, must have been a resident cf the Territory of Alaska since| December 31, 1910. | The Nome-sponsored amendment (Continued on Pag;: ‘Three) TRAVEL CONTROL IS NOW CAPTAIN Capt. Ralph A. Boaz, who is in charge of the Civilian Travel Con- trol office in Juneau and the vi- cinity, has been receiving con- gratulations on his promotion captaincy on Pebruary 15. One of the best known army of- ficers in Juneau, Capt. Boaz has ibeen on duty here for the last eight {months and for ten months prio: to coming to Juneau was in serv- ice at the Westward. ALASKA ROAD 10 BE OPEN WHOLE YEAR Permanent Spans Will Be Put in When Tempor- ary Structures Go aph Mamk berxn s Armiy career during the last World War WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—The Al-|i? Which he served for two years can Highway will be open all year|it the field artillery, part of the round when completed next fall, time in Prance. He was called into Brig. Gen. James A, O'Connor said Mtzveudultz" for his present service in an interview here. |early in ' 4 The chief of the Northwest Serv-; Mrs. Boaz and their twin sons, ice Command said temporary bridg- | 15-year-old Scotty and Roddy, make es which are washed out by spring their home in Hot Springs, Arkan- freshets will be replaced with per-|sas, where the boys are in t! manent spans. llnst year of juiior high school. He said the’ road will primarily| - T supply air bases but that it will| be good enough to handle all Alas-| The largest ears of corn are ka freight if water shipping be-|8T0Wn in the Jalla Valley of comes unsafe. lMex!co. to! Pinal and Maricopa counties to do the harvesting. B ST AT, Gandhi Weak On 14th Day 0f Fa‘s!i ng NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 23 Mahatma Gandhi, now on his 14th day of a scheduled 21-day fast in protest against his detention the British authorities, passed quiet day. He slept several hours although he is growing “progressively weak- 4 a er,” aceording to dispatches from Poona. ———.——— ® & & o 0 o 0 0 e e =« . WEATHER REPORT . L4 (U. 8. Bureau - e Temp. Monday, Feb. 22: B © Maximum 41; minimum 33. e “. ® 0 & o ® 0 0 0 0 0 ) by | |command of Capt. Sullivan in 150 ‘lmns—ocean hops. Pul(eilifig On.5 Fresh Vegefables | SALVAGE CRI | LISBON, Feb, 23.—Salv: lare working gt the bott the | Tagus River ‘today attempting to |ttt the shattered hulk of the | Yankee Clipper which crashed yes- | :lerday. Twenty of the 39 perse | WORKING . Crews R il By et o anal L S been swept away by e i Aclion Taken fo Stop Spec- Of the 15 survivors, all but two ulation and Price | |are still in the hospital, but their |injuries are not serious. Jane Fro- man, radio singer, is one of them. | Boosts | WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — The COASTAL AIRLINES ON | government has clamped an emer- ROUND TRIP TO SITKA gency price ceiling over five major Stanley D, Baskin and Carlfresh vegetables — tomatoes, green indstrom went to Sitka yesterday | and waxed beans, carrots, cabbage sboard an Alaska Coastal Airlines | and peas plaue. Returping from Sitka to Ju-| The aetion was necessitated to ieau werg Mrs, W. Lemplin, Jose- |stop speculative price boosts caused shine Dawson, Evelyn McDonald, |by the tremendous demand after {.nd Geda Kellberg, imn canned goods became rationed Pl 40 | today { No distributor may sell at prices types Of [higher than in the five days from dent, flint, flour, sweet and|Pebruary 18 to February 22, inclu- slve. There are five main corn: pop. |regulations to govern: | 1. The dispensing of intoxicating | 1iquor. | 2. The operation of places of am- i usement. ‘ 3. Sanitation, | 4. Control of prostitution. ‘ 5. Prevention of disease. The Act would remain in force ‘(luring the war and until six months | after the war ends. It would be ef- I tive immediately upon its pas- The bill carries a penalty of $500 |fine or a maximum of three months mprisonment for violations. | The bill states that the object of {the Act is to ensure the health and |welfare of the Armed forces of the i United States wifhin the Territory. Since the bill was introduced by W committee, it was placed on the calendar to come up for second reading. ¢ o 0 0 0 0 o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 6:13 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 8:09 am. . ® Dimout begins Wednesday o ® at sunset at 6:15 p.m. . LIS R R R B )