The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9277. [, £38 LASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1943 KASSERINE PASS TAKENBY ALLIED FORCED U.S. Bombers A RAID MADE ONBASEIN ALEUTIANS Other Assaulfs § Reported in f Solomons in Navy Communique JAP SHIP HIT IN ALEUTIANS | WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Ameri- can aerial attacks on Jap positions | in both the Solomons and Aleutians are reported in today’s official com- munique of the Navy. The communique says fires were started in one raid on the Solomons. “On February 23, the commun-| ique says, “U. S. bombers with fight- | er escort, attacked Jap positions at! Kiska, in the Aleutians, but clouds prevented observation of results.” Yesterday, dive bombers attacked the Jap positions at Vila, Kolom- bangara Island, and also enemy po- sitions on Kahili and Faisi in the Shortland Island area. Regarding the attack on Kiska, the Navy communique said the - EE:??}:: iep%l;{fi%s::z{?fih‘ Share = Ihe . (ar Drive Stalls in Washingfon;. * (ity IsMost Unfriendly quency during recent weeks. Some STERN OF A JAP PATROL VESSEL in the Aleutians is ripped by violent explosions after a salvo of bombs dropped from a U. S. plane almost blew the ship out of the water. Shortly after, crew members of the American bomber saw the ship rise and snap apart. (International) authorities here considered it sig- nificant no enemy resistance is re- ported on previous attacks. The Japs have occasionally put up strong opposition but the impres- sion prevails in informed circles that the Kiska base is not sufficient- ly powerful enough to offer con- sistently strong resistance and only e DEOUIREMENTS FOR SOLDIERS MAY CHANGE The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) CASABLANCA PRECAUTIONS At Casablanca, a barbed wire By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Accord- |ing to the District of Columbia div- ision of the American Automobile Association, the national capital's jshare-the-car program has bogged down. The AAA survey, conducted in 'both the District and suburbs, shows that cars arrive in shopping and More Manpower Neede 1gu\'emmem office areas with an H HH 1 average of approximately two persons in Military Services as | 0 0ian n icresse over the start. of the share-your-car WASHINGTON.—Here is the in-| we" as Home Fron' !drive that it is hardly worth con- side story of how the Secret Serv-, WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Official- | 5'9€7ing- ice performed one of its most dif- ly informed that America’s expand-| YO only that, says e AR b ficult assignments in history—pro- ing military power may soon roroekh"lde"" of B and C cards have a tecting the President on his trip the lowering of the Services’ phy-“eu"r‘,i o_nly fractionally better than among North African Arabs, West |sical standards or the raising of | the limited A-card holders African natives, and through South |the 38 year age “limit, the Senate | y America. | Investigating Committee summoned'tOTb’;e;? al'ef unlythti:ollrzngl:;fl::m : E the nation’s manpower and agri-| FD Ao .48 TR e m’xi‘l‘;y p\r;g;x: [;::s;t's‘axzh;e;vi:;:cultun‘ chiefs o explain how nec-f“o"a] capltal's car‘»uuv'nm's e e agent, left Washington several days |81V food and equipment can be|SOOPSIIive; (@ MOS8 bnc ey beforé the President, and traveled‘pmdu“'d this year. 1(‘(‘;’?;;3’; l:nmt u:rltle,.l:,m}A::‘:\ the exact route he was to follow. ! While conlgligiog sias mych Of'clusi 1:1- E ‘nowT‘l"w‘? n‘x‘xl:‘n't s;r:c- From Miami to Brazil to West (h€ voluminous testimony. taken | P gre. ooy ;’ eRgRISL L ¢ during a month of closed hearings|them. But I think both of those Africa to North Africa, Reilly nndq5 conflicting, some members of "he‘dcductlons are partially true, a picked squad of men went over g, i Appr'ofmauom Subcommit.| A MOst of the capital’s drivers to- every step in advance. .At Natal, |, inquiring into manpower prob- |V are government workers. Many | Brazil, when Reilly walked out on o protested that the planned'““ working to the limit of their the dock where the presmentlal}gx.owm of the armed forces wmiendurance and the rest think they| clipper was to land, he suddenly leave insufficient workers to turn|2re: Generally they feel, perhaps,| turned and disappeared. |out the supplies needed by military.gma" ey siould =AY s kst He had seen Walter Winchell, civilians and lend-lease. |take on the ad_dmonal burden of and he was afraid. that ace re-| An earlier witness made public|PJAYing bus driver mornings and porter would smell news in the|the disclosure that the army con-|C'ETings: nor should they risk tar-| wind, Winchell ‘'was on his way | templates an air force equal to the |#1€sS o late arrivals home by par-, north, after an assignment at mo.lentire aerial strength of the Axis ticipating in a transportation Reilly says he expects to kid Win- |by. the end of 1943, and a total | OURA-TODIn- S chell some day about missing that |oOverseas force of 4,750,000 .men i O sk othier Hpdy Wiathinglon bit of news. (Even if Winchell had |scheduled by the end of 1944. { foxcent: for LsranL Selvav) Jisrio got wind of the affair, of course, The source of single men not in loVEeF @ ‘friendly town” If you he could have printed nothing | €ssential occupations or otheryige | %8Nt proof, ask the personnel di-, about: the. movesent of the Presi- |deferred may be exhausted by the|rectors who are conducting the so-| dent). At Bathurst, West Africa, end of this month, the committee called “eXit e i VIR oA the British almost interned theihe“rd- p »?'om who' insist on lenvn}g thgh- ot Eiviil ol 6 ik ey (FDE Axis 18 likely to fretain g ({900 . T have dvedidn, worked. in, ing yellow fever lnwula.tlons,'!‘hevlpw‘m‘"y during the next year or‘lr),;'vh}l‘ed in many of the country’s had feared illness from “shots|Bround forces, despite the growth NL “;‘e "."d of “v” those, only and took a chafice without them,|©f American armed services, nc-\mc“: "i'k an U5 NweRmb Wash- Actually one man was detaineq,|°Ording to the report. The Axis, in-| rgwon ). 18 peljictange to agcept ot b e sstenad 1 | cluding Japan, are reported to have D€ c‘"f‘“*: .And it’s the newcomers -31 he was the one assigned to ... (" g00 aircraft squadrons with|!eré who are not driving cars and rémain there anyhow. |about 25 fighting planes and eight, ¥ho are looking for some sort of | bombers in a squadron :l.;n\'e-the-cpst. if not share-the-car ) CRg o | transportation. i ::?c:n :nvsmir:ci':dw;r;:“‘:hzh; r:‘:_!wa"a(e 'o Ioul’ | ‘There is one other important fac- dent and Prime Minister were to| N gl |50k 2 The WARGIGIRG: e yoyx. 8 car program has been kicked around SPE: ANl At sevants 'Ar“bs’l la"n Ame"(a 50 much that no agency has really were removed from the two villas| WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Vice- had an opportunity to develop it.| intended for the two chiefs, and President Wallace said he has ac- Most of the time, it has been in U. S. soldiers were substituted. cepted invitations to visit Costa | OCD, but even there it has had no Arabs were retained in other Rica, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ec- abiding place of sufficient perman- parts of the hotel, but not allowed |uador, Panama and Peru “about ence to permit enforcement of any t0 leave the compound’ during the the middle of March.” rules and regulations. entire period. They soon learned| He expects to attend the launch- Officials are trying to do some- who their guests were, and some Ing of the Tropical Institute of Ag- thing about that now, but the tried to pass notes to friends out- Z?f:";‘f:mfé’ufi,“i“; lxzabe:ndq :fltz consensus is that it’s pretty hope- fContinued on Page Four) and abaca in other countries. - | (Continued on Ps:ge Four) ON OFFENSIVE S AGAINST AXIS Wave After Wave of Four- Motored Craft Roar Over Northwest Germany LONDON, Feb. 26—A strong force American bombers attacked Germany today, it was officially by the Air | of northwest announced Ministry. | Wave after wave of the four mo- tored bombers roared over north- west Germany where tHey could find large U-boat building and in- dustrial targets. Only a few hours tefore the RAF night shift had struck a smashing blow at Nuersi-| berg in southern Germany where Diesel motors and other sub equip- | ment is manufactured. | The attacks came aboul 24 nmu-s| after other American bombers in| the Mediterranean area raided| Naples at the southern end of the! Axis, ‘ That the Americans are kvsping‘ the offensive going was indicated! even before the British official an-| ncuncement was made when the| German radio told of aerial forces | striking from a high altitude this| morning | The British announced that the! raid on Nuernberg, the first since| August, and other points in west-| ern Germany, cost the RAF nine planes, ! - - MAJORBEEN ISMISSINGIN AUSTRALIA Disappearsfilanuary 18 with His Crew on Bomber ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 26—Major Wil- liam G. Been, one of the outstand- ing airmen under Gen. Dou MacArthur, is listed as officially missing. It is announced that Major Been, whose home is in Washington, Pa., disappeared January 18, with others in a Mitchell bomber on a flight An intensive search failed to re- veal any trace of the bomber. Major Been was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross last Octo- ber following intensive raids on Rabaul. His bombers are credited with putting out of commission en- emy shipping totalling 100,000 tons - LIBERATORS BOMB ITALY; NO TROUBLE tage of a waning moon, which bomb- ers always favor. American Liber- ator bombers struck at the Italian ports of Naples and Cortone short- ly before dawn yesterday. The night was clear and bright enabling fliers to observe direct hits on docks, harbor installations and railroad tracks. Axis fighters were in the air but they didn’t press an attack on the bombers, possibly because they have lost so many planes in previous clashes with Liberators. - > e e o 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Thursday, Feb. 25. Maximum 41, minimum 28 e 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 This is the Freuch battleship Richelieu after she pu t into New York harbor on a trip from Dakar, French Along wit h her stern and superstructure, turrets and 15-inch Three French cruisers a nd several destroyers also came to East Coast ports. REDS (LOSING West Africa, for repairs and reoutfitting. naval rifles will be repaired. U. 8. Navy photo. ttack Jap Positions at U.5.BOMBERS| _Pride of french Navy Puts o New OPA Forces Triangle Cleaners fo Shut Off Service fo Civilians IN CAUCASUS WORK STOPS IN BOEING WAGE FIGHT Plant Emplfiees Making Demand for Decision by War Labor Board SEATTLE, Feb. 26 — Thousands of Boeing Aircraft workers, whose work stoppage for a mass meeting and. parade late yesterday brought | a half shift shut down of the Fly- ing Fortress plants, voted to hold an around-the-clock meeting Mon- day unless the War Labor Board returns a favorable decision prompt- ly of the long pending wage in- crease case. Their contract with the company expired’ last July and intermittent negotiations have been zoing on ever since. The workers expressed their in- tentions of also calling upon other AFL union airplane builders for imilar -action. At the same time they asked that President Roose- velt’s intervention be solicited. While thousands of workers were tying up city traffic, the aeronau- tical mechani union was filing uit in Federal Couft here against the Labor Board demanding that the Board be compelled to act or surrender jurisdiction and thus en- able. the union to negotiate direct- ly with the Boeing Company which 1as expressed itself in favor of a wage increase. A high west coast army officer branded the work stoppage as “little less than treasonable.” - President Keeps To His Quarfers In Wh[le House WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Physi- cians today advised President Roose- velt to remain in his White House quarters for another day to try and hake off an intestinal attack. Presidential Secretary Gassett said this afternoon: “I am glad to e able to tell you the President is omewhat better.” e BUY WAR BONDS | Cleaners lcivilian trade tonight, Rod Darnell, | Juneau's only exclusive dry-clean- establishment — the Triangle will close its doors to ing this morning. closure has not owner, announced Darnell said the been forced because the Triangle Cleaners can no longer handle the volume of business in Juneau, along with military business, but because of the Office of Price tion’s refusal to allow an increase in prices to meet increased costs. Darnell has operated the clean- ing business here for more than eight years. He said that when con- ditions reached a point which “pro- | hibited us from continuing to op- erate at our old prices, we applied to the OPA for permission to ad- Jjust rates to the level allowed such establishments in Ketchikan. “This was refused.” Went Ahead In order to continue at that time, last fall proceeded contrary ruling in establishing rates, Since that time the Triangle has been a violator of the OPA regulations. Darnell said that it is impossible for him to continue o operate his business successfully and still obey the OPA orders. “The only alter- native I have to clése the doors to civilian trade He said that the OPA offered a compromise agreement but would give him no definite schedule. He said the agreement was offered providing he refund the difference customers have been paying in prices since last September. In ad- dition, the OPA told him that for all cases where the company was unable to get in touch with tomer to make the refund, the company should make out a check for that amount “payable to the U. 8. Treasury. Darnell said that he is willing to refund the difference in price to any customer sequesting this. But he will discontinue civilian business after the doors close this evening Should Be Same Darnell pointed out thatl though the rates he requests allowed in Ketchikan, Juneau several hundred miles further north than. Ketchikan and living should be higher here than in the Plrst City—at least not any lower Darnell said that he did not be- in business the Triangle to the OPA al- are lieve any furthér attempts to come to a compromise with the OPA of- fice wowld be worth while under-handed method of opera- tion,” most of all with the practice wopted by the Juneau OPA office (Continued on Page Five) Administra- | | past Mingrelskaya, 33 miles from | | the streets of Staronizhe and Steb-| FREEZING PRICES a cus- | costs He sald that he was “fed up with the OPA’s | Stucebaker Kiska York ROMMELIS ~ ONRUN IN NO. AFRICA 'Counter-offensive Is Being | Pushed by Americans and British ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 26—Allied | troops, pushing a counter-offensive in central Tunisia, bave recap- tured Kasserine Pass in following |up Rommel's withdrawal, and also have advanced 10 to 15 miles in the Sbiba area to the northeast. An Allied communique said the Germans have been defeated in an loffensive which carried them 66 |miles from Faid Pass almost to |the Algerian border and the enemy {now appears to be falling back to- ward Gafsa. Gen. Alexander’s Britons and Americans have seized the initia- tive now and are following the retreating Nazls up. Gafsa is located about 75 mil southeast of the farthest point reached by Rommel's columns which surged to within three miles of i’l‘hnlu before being stopped. IRAP 0“ Fo[l Kasserine Pass was recaptured iwhen American Doughboys and | British Tommies drove up the moun- tains on each side of the pass yes- |terday afternoon and pushed the Germans onto the flat platéau be- |yond. American and British tanks |then roared through the gap on the heels of the Axis troops. Meanwhile, British forces in the {northeast bore down on the Axis {flank from the Sbiba mountain area and advanced within nzne he ;mllvs of Sbeitla. Here, too, Germans are in flight. MOSCOW, Feb, 26-—The Soviets | Sbiba is 30 miles north of Sbeitha, are closing the trap about the rem-|N¢ Of the towns through which nants of the German Caucasus |Rommel passed on his way to Faid army which s huddled at Novor-|PAss toward Kasserine. ossisk and wedged against Kerch| Pk o Strait, according to a Russian cum-1 R I B l u[ IS Hundreds of Dead Left on Sireets After All Night Battle, Two Towns munique. i The Red army smashed the rail-| way town of Angelinskaya about| 160 miles northeast of Nnvoross\uk} and then took Steronizhe and Steb- | lievskaya, a few miles to the sou!h[ [ | in a bloody battle. The communique also sald that | a drive 40 miles northwest of Kras- | nodar is apparently progressing down the railway from Tlmushev-[ THIRD TIME kaya, previously recaptured, to Nov- orossisk, West of Krusriodar the R|L&s§ml=A|“ed Bombers Dam age columns are said to be pushing Seaphne Ca"ier and Three Cargo Vessels lievskaya after the all-night bat-| ALLIED HEADQ!‘JARTERS IN tle, the communique said | AUSTRALIA, Feb. 26—Allied bomb- - e |ers, winging for the third straight time across New Britain Island for lattacks on shipping at Rabaul, pos- !sibly damaged a seaplane tender |and three cargo ships. This i the |announcement today by the Allied |High Command. Novorossisk. Hundreds of dead were left in| a ® o 60 0.0 00 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES . e . Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 6:20 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e IN ALASKA GIVEN' SEATTLE, Feb. 26—Alaska prices| ( S ou are frozen and maximum pl‘lcl‘)‘ for Appu Au' F which tomatoes, snap beans, car-| (OA“‘ GUARD Io 1ots, cabbage and green peas can be sold in Alaska was announced (flvm "ow teday following instructions from BERE the OPA Washington, D. C, i The new freeze is in conformity The District Coast Guard Offi- with similar order affecting Se- cer in Ketchikan has announced ttle markets that was issued last that a limited number of applica- uesday A | tions il be accepted for induction The new ceilings so far as Alas-'into the United States Coast Guard. ka consumers are concerned will Applicants must be betweerf the be the -highest price charged be- ipes of 18 and 38, permanent resi- tween February 18 and February gents of Alaska, and have had ex- 22 for the vegetables in questaion,' .. ionce with boats h‘m. apply only to vegetables pro-| Tho nn.creslfd.should submit ’|“]""d\'n‘ll"l?lMIA)'I:?:kIfl)'l'l"lln‘[::;lt'd“:‘l’l:(\' their qualifications and experience will continue to be priced under :“,”“” TUAEI) . Siarc, e Bepe the fixed markup order so that | " °f the Port of Juneau. freeze in wholesale pr in Seattle - will be reflected in prices in Alaska - WASHINGTON. Feb - From 00.000 to 650,000 “victory farm vol- unteers,” mostly high school boys and girls, will be recruited for farm work during the spring and sum- mer menths, Food Administrator ® 8t sunrise at 8:01 am. > Claude R. Wickard and Federal E4- ® Dimout begins Saturday at e ucation Commissioner John W, © sunset at 6:22 pm. L said here. is. 0. 0.0 090 oD