The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9278. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1943 __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY == YANKS, BRITIS H CHASE ROMMEL'’S FORCES German Industrial Base Pounded by Bombers NIGHT RAID ONCOLOGNE DISASTROUS Hundreds of RAFPlanes 1 "fiafe §a(:rage Rousg-esfl E R R I I: I ( the-Clock Attack | B A'”' l[ |N 50. RUSSIA LONDON, Feb. 274H‘undl‘eds of | RAF bombers made a very heavy attack on Colognt last night. It Donets Basin Scene of Fur- ious Fighting — Hitler Tries fo Stem Tide was the greatest raid on this Rhine- | land industrial center since the 1,000 plane assault several months ago. Indications are that the RAF | may be maintaining savage around- the-clock pounding of Axis targets. Ten bombers were lost. | Cologne, a city of 768,000 popula- | tion and vast war output, has| shrunk considerably under the aer- S ial assaults of which last night's| MOSCOW, Feb. 27 — A furious was the 113 of the war. Reliable | battle is in progress in the Donets Legislation on " OrFight" Takes Smash At Absenteeism Issue ATTACKON COASTIS PREDICTED Work | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— House |Rules Committee cleared the way |for action next week on the bill |to curb absenteeism through “work |or fight” legislation in the form of |a rider to the minor naval person- {nel bill. 4 | The measure would require all navy yards to turn over to the lo- |cal Selective Service Boards ever | three months ,the names of all em- | | ployes who have been absent from | | work without justification. The| Boards will then determine whether | such workers should further be de- | ferred from draft. | —.———— SKI DOPE Extreme Vigilance on Defense Is Urged SAN FRAN S C 0, Calif. Feb. 27.—The Regional Office of the Civilian Defense today warns that the Pacific Coast will probably be attacked “and it is time we faced that fact.” James Sheppard, Regional Director, in a carefully worded statement says: “The Japs don’t overlook any bets. We know from experience they will strike the hardest when and where the attack is least expected. “We need constant vigilance DOC WALKER OPENS UP IN | Japs May Stnke Anyfime—!Sen ator from Kefchikan Blasts A. P. Walker from Floor Senate this morning killed tie vote a bill which would jh:m- made employers of one or more persons, instead of five or more, liable under the Workmen's 'Compensation Act. And thereby (hangs a tale The bill, introduced in the House iby Rep. Joseph W Kehoe, was for the purpose of making cities liable under the act. In the Senate, Sen- ator A. P. Walker got a 6-2 favor- able vote to amend the bill to al include the provision that all em- ployers be liable under the act iby a sources said that evacuation has r duced the population to about 500.- 000. Other aircraft attacked railway| targets in northern France Gladwin Hill, Associated Press correspondent, who was one of the six American reporters accompany- ing U. 8. raiders yesterday in the | ‘Wilhelmshaven daylight attack, said that the big' planes had to fight their way out in a two-hour running battle with German fighters. Their chief dam- age was from anti-aircraft barrage. “Those Germans can fly!” Hill reported, “You're so preoccupied watching Their sweeps, twists and turns that you forget that they're trying to kill you.” Robert Post, New York Times correspondent, was missing on one persistent | |Basin in southern Russia. accord- ing to a midday communique. ‘ As Hitler sought to stem disas-| trous defeats by throwing all avail-| able tanks into a series of counter assaults in the Kramatorsk region {120 miles northwest of Rostov, the | Russians are said to be holding| and taking a new toll of German men and equipment. The Soviet. information Bureau irecorded that 1,300 Germans have been killed in the two day struggle. ! Drastic Bill | On Sioppages GIVEN 0UT FOR SUNDAY Rally Breal(fafi, then Hike | fo Upper Bowl-Bean Feed Promised Anticipating that the best ski-| ing of the year will be above the! clouds tomorrow, the Juneau Ski| Club will take their activities to| |the upper ski bowl. Sunshine, spring‘ ‘crmdmons and corn snow are pre-| dicted on the ridge above the:cab-| and preparedness, greater than | Senator N. R. Walker of Ketchi- ever.” kan is to be given credit for the Sheppard quoted a letter changing of two votes which killed from Lieut. Gen. John D. De- |the bill after giving one of the Witt received last week stating best talks heard in the Legislature that the “mere fact enemy 'this year raids have not taken place “Doc” Walker, irked by a letter along this coast should be a printed in the Ketchikan Fishing challenge to civilian defense News and signed by Senator A. P. and renewcd vigilance.” Walker, made the windows of the e Benate Chamber bulge out as he condemned Senator A. P. Walker's action and called upon his colleagues o ea to vote against House Bill No. 6 as Flour Price . Is Going Up a matter of principle in order to !demonstrate that they connot be bludgeoned into cesting their votes by threats and castigation.” The tie vote was more of a con- demnation of A. P. Walker’s action than a vote on the bill itself, be- cause two Senators who changed Terror Raid Hits Cologne TALK TODAY SayGermans | LONDON, Feb. 27. — A German | radio broadcast from Berlin picked | up here said that Cologne had been | subjected to “a terror raid in which | eight hospitals were destroyed” and ! ithe population suffered casualties. | The broadeast also claimed that 135 Allled aircraft were destroyed through yesterday and last night over the continent and off the Channel coast. | The crews of American Fortresses |and Liberators reported that over | Wilhelmshaven there were instances of 25 to 40 fighters attacking at |one time, and that the German | pilots do not seem to be eager to [Ty close to the bombers' guns. | D TWO BILLS I SENATE ~ SATURDAY | Eenate this morning. [al duties for the Commissioner of | Labor. The other from the Finance | Ccom. asks that the unexpended $175,000 set aside for the construc- tion of an addition to the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka in 1941, before the | war, be turned back into the gen- |eral fund of the Territory. A. P. Walker's bill would provide that the Commissioner of Labor ‘take assignments for wage claims, One, by Sen- Two bills were introduced in the ator A. P. Walker, sets up addition- of the seven craft reported lost Two men were seen to parachute from his dlsabled plane after it had caught fire twice. - War Industry Proposes that Government Take Over Plants Hit by Labor Trouble There are 24 training schools for military pilots in the Union of South Africa. The w a s h i n g Ion WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Evident- ly spurred to action by recent work Merry - Go- Round stoppages in prime war plants, in-| By DREW PEARSON |cluding the Boeing plane factory (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) at Seattle, Senator Tom Connally, said he will introdute a bill Mon-' day authorizing the Government to y‘_cake over the operation of any war plant where production is interrupt- ed by “strike or other labor dis- WASHINGTON. Immediatel after his return from North Afri- ca, the President summoned Con- Y gressional leaders to the wmleiuu'nance. or for any other cause. House for what they all later de- | scribed as a “highly conridennar'\“AVAl plA“ES { meeting. | ‘4 Fact is, however, that most of | ! the things FDR told Congressional | 0" THURSDAY ! ATTACK, KISKA| 4 | leaders that day, off the record, he | told his press conference next day —for publication. There were details about the way | the Firestone Rubber Company is double-tapping rubber on its Li- ers with a fighter escort attacked beria plantation, the way Roose- [Jap positions on Kiska Island last . velt celebrated his birthday, with Thursday, the Navy announced to- cake and candles in the plane 8,000 |day in official communique No. feet over Haiti, and the story about |293. | the President’s being so comfortable| Also, dive bombers started "manyl in Casablanca that he didn’t want|fires” in a heavy raid over the| to move, in spite of advice that the |Jap air base on Munda in the | conference should shift locale rrumfccn!rfil Solomons, it was stated. | day to day for safety's sake. { B e the 1 But there were at least a ewquw I.EADERS Fon things the President included in GIRL SCOUT TROOP: his talk with Congressmen which were not revealed to the press. One was the touchy problem of civilian | unrest and possible revolt among| Two new Juneau residents who' the native population, mostly Arabs. |have volunteered to take an active The President pointed out the dan- |part in the leadership of local Girl | ger of such an outbreak to our|Scouts are Mrs. William Bulbran- | military operations. It would be like |son and Mrs. Andy Baker, both of | having hostile action on the rear!“vhose husbands have recently ac- flank, he said. |cepted employment in the city, the The other matter which the Pres- | {irst being with OPA and the sec- ident discussed with Congressional ond with PAA. leaders was the Tolan-Kilgore-| Mrs. Gulbranson will be associ- Pepper bill creating a centralized jated with the Intermediate Troop civilian reorganization for the|led by Mrs. Floyd Fagerson, while War Production Board and the| Mrs. Baker will work with the production powers of the Army Intermediate Troop of Mrs. P. J. and Navy. | Gilmore. The President backed up the/ Army and Navy, said he was gmn- phatically opposed to the bill, and asked for Congressional support in defeating it. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—B0mb‘1 | | > PHILS WENT BOOM PHILADELPHIA — The Philies with 42 victories against 109 de- feats had the fewest major league wins last season, | QWOBMW) in if the weather does not suddenly |change, and a mass prilgrimage will be made to the upper area Juneau skiers are warned to pro- tect their eyes from the sun’s glare tomorrow with snow glasses. The trail and the slalom area are also very likely to be icy, and skiers are cautioned to ski carefully. Most of the sliding fraternity will |hike to the upper cabin and the |OPA GranETncrease— | Means More for Crack- . ers, Also Cakes WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — The Office of Price Administration their votes and cast ballots against |, ;secute actions for collection of the bill were in favor of ils Pas-|yages and other demands of per- sage previgusly. |sons which are valid’ and enforce- “T realize that in speaking against | gple in the courts.” this bill T am open to castigation| whis is provided that “in all and my motives may be impugned. wage matters and before the taking Nevertheless T am opposed to its of said assignment the Commis- passage,” Senator Walker stated. |sioner shall summon to appear be- “This bill was defeated in the+rm'e him” the wage claimant or House and the motives of those claimants and the employer.” opposed (o it were impugned by a‘ The bill would give the Commis- JAP VESSEL IS BOMBED 50. PACIFIC Wewak Airdrome Raided- Heavy Blow Struck at Gasmata ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 27.—A Jap mer- | chant vessel was bombed and dam- aged off the New Guinea coast, the Allied High Command announced this Saturday forenoon. The vessel was of 5000 tonnage. ©One 500-pound bomb made a direct hit and two other bombs exploded close enough to cause further dam- age. The attack was made at low level. Bombers also delivered a big at- tack on the Wewak airdrome early this morning and another heavy blow was struck at Gasmata, New Britain Island, where the two waves of Allied planes dropped bombs and caused wide damage. ->-oe HEALTH COUNCIL MEETS MONDAY A full report of the findings of the Day Nursery survey will be made at the Monday night meet- ing of the Gastineau Channel Health Council, to be held at 8 o'clock in the Territorial Building, room 108 Other business to be submitted will include a summary of the ac- tivities of the public health nurse over the past month, following which an educational movie, “Let’s Eat Out” will be shown - ALASKA MAIL ASKS BIGGER APPROPRIATION « to the upper bowl is set for 9 a. m. Is Missing | | Capt. Roy Draper, former University | {and member of the champion 400- | ridges beyond. Visibility is expected to be excellent and on a clear day the distant mount St. Elias and Chilkat Mountain ranges may be seen. A rally breakfast is scheduled for| Percy’s Cafe tomorrow morning at! 8 o'clock and 40 skiers have already signed up for the event. The trip granted a 60 cent per -barrel in- crease in the prices of soft wheat flour when announcing the forth- coming ceiling price on soft wheat which is used largely in crackers. biscuits and pastry. The ceiling, which is the first on any type of wheat was requested by Director of Economic Stabil! tion James Byrnes, will be * approx- imately at the market levels which prevailed during the middle of the week.” The flour order may eventually cause a slight increase in the re- tail price of crackers and cakes CONSOLIDATION OF FISHERIES IS DEBATABLE 1 | 1 I n A cl l o n! In Juneau on a brief business trip |is Wilfred C. Stump of Ketchikan, well known atforney of the First INGLEWOOD, Calif., Feb. 27.—|City and former Assistant U. S Attorney. Discussing the locally - proposed consolidation of fisheries operations meter relay team in 1936 at the |Which has been submitted to Fed- Olympic Games in Berlin, is missing | €ral bureaus heads in Seattle, Stump A bean feed and down mountain races are on the program for the| Ski Club tomorrow and all inter- ested Juneau skiers are invited to Jjoin the festivity. Capt. Draper of Southern California track star | in actien in North Africa, his|said a report was supposed to have mother has been notified. been released within ten days and SRR LR A it has now been six weeks. | “The fact that the question has GovER"ME"I F"_ES | been delayed, as well as other con- | siderations, lead me to doubt that Su“ FoR “".E Io the committee will recommend its |acceptance, at least not entirely,” SEA FAIR BUILDING |stump seid. He added that he had |been told the matter was now in _ | the hands of Secretary of the Inter- o ';‘:m?x;e"mi::fn District | jor Harold Ickes for final decision tion in Tem was filed by the United| Mr. Stump, while in Juneau, is at ; |the Baranof Hotel. States Attorney in behalf of the A United States of America against| g the property and owners of the CROW FOR BE*? Southeast Alaska Fair Building| TULSA, Okla. — Worried about to condemn the property for gov- meat rationing? Well, says Dr. T. ernment use and obtain title to|W. Stallings of Tulsa, you needn’t the property. |be. There are enough crows in the The amount tendered for the United States to fill the gap caused property was $15,000 which amount by & temporary beef and pork was deposited with the U. S. Dis- crisis, he says, and he adds: “Eat- trict Court by the U. S. Attorney’s ing crow is not bad at all. In fac*, office, |young crows are swell eating.” member of our own body, Senator A. P. Walker. “I refer to a letter which ap- peared in the Alaska Fishing News ! igned by A. P. Walker which I consider obscene, unfit and unde- irable and which casts reflection on our Legislature. “I did not come ture with a labor banner coat, nor did I come with a Chamber of Commerce banner. I 2m here to represent the people of Alaska, fearlessly and honestly. ‘I believe it only fair to call the attention of the Senators to the fact that they may be open to the ame unfain political villainy A, P. Walker displayed in writing this letter if they vote against the bill, but nevertheless call on you to de- feat it. ‘My words regarding the letter to which I referred were too feeble, I call it deplorable, and dispicable. . . . It was intended to intimidate you into casting your vote for this bill in order to avoid castigation. % “This same Senator said some time ago he hoped for unity in the Senate and it is my belief that by his actions he has done more to promote lack of unity | “This bill has some merits as if was amended but it should be voted down as a matter of principle re- gardless of its merits. We are threat- ened by implication in the letter, t which I have referred and I am not going to have anyone hold an axe over my head or threaten me with the guillotine if I vote for or against any bill, either this Senator who holds aloft his labor banner or any- one else. “If you are afraid of what might happen to you vote for this bill, if you are not afraid, vote it down There is a question of self-respe and prineiple involved that cannot be overlooked. “I e¢2n somewhat mitigate fears of this Senator, however. I have had occasion to come up against him at the polls, with dis- astrous rseults to himself. “Senators, you are being blud- to the Legisla on m; your 1 contemptible | to effect reasonable of wage claims. - sioner power | comprofises 'Move fo Abolish 'Legislature Is [Killed in House Spectators in the House gallery were a little confused yesterday af- ternocn when Rep. Joseph W. Ke- Foe got up and proposed an amend- ment to a memorial to Congress to abolish the Legislature. Some spectators, however, who cat through the horseplay of the afternogn probably thought it was 1 good idea. The amendment was lost. It was |offered to a memorial introduced |by Rep. Harvey J. Smith, urging |that Congress enact legislation which would delay the bill amend- ing the Organie Act of Alaska to increase the size of both. Territorial houses and elect representatives on |a population basis. Smith urges a delay until after |the war, claiming the population |centers at present will not hold true after the war, and further urg- ing that the people of Alaska be |given an opportunity to vote on | the measure. - o PALO ALTO, Calif. Feb. 27 — o | Stanford basketeers made a strong bid last night to wrest UCLA's sec- ond place position in the Southern Division Pacific Coast Basketball Conference by defeating the Bruins 60 to 41. Stanford’s vietory assured South- ern California the Southern Divi- sion Conference championship. geoned into voting for this bill by intimidation and threats. Regard- less of its merits, as I have asid, it should be voted down. “I have many more things I could say in this regard. I may already have said too much but, whatever I have said, I will not apologize for or explain.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Post Office officials asked for an addi- tional $300,000 to pay for the in- creased costs of operating the star route service im Alaska at a hear- ing of the House Appropriations Committee. It was testified that by Novem- ber the appropriation of $180,000 for the fiscal year ending in June will be exhausted. The officials said, in comments on Alaska service, that more than $426,000 additional amount would “barely carry themn to the end of the fiscal year.” - o FRANK TOWNSEND, OF INIAN ISLAND, IS VISITING IN JUNEAU Fank Townsend, long time resi- dent of Inian Island, arrived here this week to spend a short time on business and visiting his many friends in Juneau. Mr. Townsend is staying at the Gastineau Hotel while he is in the city - e VALDEZ MAY BUY UTILITY At a recent meeting of the Val- dez City Council the question of purchasing the electric light and power system was considered. A loan will be sought from the REA if the plan is accepted favorably. - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 27 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4's, American Can 79. Anaconda 28';, Bethlehem Stee! 61'., Commonwealth and Southern «, Curtiss Wright 8';, General Mot- ors 48':, International Harvester 64, Kennecott 317, New York Centralk 14'«, Northern Pacific 107, United States Steel 53'., Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 130.13; rails, 32,06 utilities, 17.48. ALLIES TAKE KEYPOINTS, ~ NO. ARRICA |German Marshal Blows Up | Airdrome, Burns Stores on Battle Front LONDON, Feb. 27 — Newspaper dispatches received here said the Allies have entered Kasserine and also wide areas on both sides and are continuing pursuit of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s retreating Axis | forces. The dispatches also report the | British Eighth Army is attacking from the south and has penetrated | part of the Mareth line defenses. The London News and Chronicle have received dispatches stating the | Allied troops, American and British, entered the town of Kasserine and lare now in complete oceupation of | that locality. The dispatches to the London Daily Mail say the Germans have blown up the Nazi airdrome at | Sbeitla, eighteen miles to the north- !east of Kasserine, and are burning |stores at Feriana, 18 miles south- 'west of Kasserine. These three key towns were tak- en by Rommel's forges during the aborttve offensive that for a time threatened Thala and Tebessa which the American forces occupy. Rommel's troops appear to be falling back in the face of an im- pending lunge by Gen. Montgom- ery's British Eighth Army in the south. A Reuter's dispatch said the for- ward units of the British Eighth Army have reached the rock strewn gorge of Zigzau which forms part of the Mareth Line. The general direction of Rom- me flight from Kasserine Pass is toward Gafsa, 75 miles below the farthest westward penetration made by the Marshal before the American and British ground and air troops threw him into retreat. NAZIS HURLED BACK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 27—Strongly. entrenched British units in north- ern Tunisia hurled back enemy tank attacks with heavy losses tos day. Trying to sieze the initiative, Col. Gen. von Arnim, sent several battalions of infantry and armored*® units against a 15 mile section of the British line between Goubellat and Bou Arada, west of Font du Fahs. Over 400 Axis soldiers were captured by the British in the action D ELROY NINNIS BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP OF SIX WEEKS SOUTH Elroy Ninnis, owner of the Ju- neau Motor Company, returned this week from a six weeks' business trip to the States Mr. Ninnis went south to pur- chase supplies for his firm here and went as far east as St. Paul, Minn., though he spent the greater part of his time lp Seattle and the Northwest. Repeating reports brought back by returned visitors to the States, Mr. Ninnis said that travel is dif- ficult and far from pleasant in the States and advised people not to undertake trips except for ur- gent business reasons. He came north by steamer to Ketch: 1 and caught an Ells Air Transport plane from there to Juneau e e o o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 6:22 o'clock. Dimgut ends tomorrow at sunrise at 7:58 a.m. Dimout begins Sunday sunset at 6:2¢ p.m Dimout ends Monday sunrise at 7:55 a.m Dimout begins Monday sunset at 6:27 p.m. l.o.ouooooooo at at at . . . ° . . . ° . . e . .