The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ML'VIB!-R ASSOClATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY = JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943 JAPS LOSE 82 PLANES, BISMARCK BATTLE Four Axis Ships From 6-Ship Convoy Sunk BOMBERS OF ALLIES MAKE BIG SWEEP Tanks Lead First Army "Pool” Operation of Alaska Canneries Is Given Ickes' Approval with the committee’s “with minor exceptions.” | SEATTLE. March 5.— Secretar of Interior Harold L. Ickes has ap-| . {proved “pool” ‘operation of Alaska| The proposals contain both the For(es Repu'slng De' Sa]mnn canneries for the coming compuisory and voluntary phases, . o E , August Buschmann, salmon made necessary by labor and equip- fefmlned Nall A"a(k 1 , announced. He was chair- ment shortages, where two or more iman of the committee which last cannecries in the same district can ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN fall worked out a plan for the 1943 maintain production rate or op- NORTH AFRICA, March 5.—Allied | 562501 | proximate to it by “going as part- bombers sank four Axis vessels ‘B"“ifih"‘xmr‘\gm hx" I’“(‘: "“"(‘;“"d ners.” -shi T Al |2 telegra rom Ira Gabrielson from a six-ship convoy, and also Scme canning interests opposed stating Secre identical | from Washington, Ickes signed the order e Thelr Sub Bagged Elght ShlpS shot up a German-Italian motor transport in aerial accompaniment | to ground fighting during which the tanks led the First Army forces in repulsing a determined attack at Sedjenana. Col. Gen. von Armin's infantry and armored units, coveting Sed- | jenana as a junction on the Ma- | teur-Tabarka Road, drove down the | street of the town but were forced back after bitter hand-to-hand | A | fighting. | British tanks are making fierce the plan. (Continued on 7P:gr .Th;w:v The Washington Pevests Asks “Let Us Fight With- PRESIDENT'S SON HITS AT BACK STABS out Being Sabbed for Politics” WASHH\GTON March 5-—Lieut. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, answering at- tacks on the war record of his brothers, asked their critics to “lay off” and declared “for God's sake, let us fight without being stabbed in the back for the sake of politics.” These remarks were in a letter written to Rep. Lanham of Texas. Lanham made the letter public on the floor of the House. | The President’s son wrote: “I don’t care whether a man is a Republican or a Democrat. Let's get together and get this damn war won. “I'm tired and want to go home and live in peace on my ranch with my family. The sooner the better, t0o0.” Lanham assailed. criticism which had been directed by Rep. Lambert- son of Kansas, a Republican, Earlier this week in the House, Lambertson | had said, “Franklin, Jr., and his Dupont wife are going the night | ) i | CLOSE CALL—_Two British signallers, out to fix a breken line, have a close call. | shell bursts in back of their jeep. Nevertheless, they continue sirlngln: line, 4 NATIONS TOOK PART INVICTORY ‘Enemy Armada Complete- ly Destroyed-More Details Given ALLIED HEADQUARTER.S IN AUSTRALIA, March 5-—The flying fighters of four Allied nations—Am- erican, British, Dutch and Austral- jans—ganged up on the Japanese to completely destroy the Bismarck Sea convoy of 22 ships which were car- rying reinforcements to New Guinea, Allied headquarters disclosed today, as the dramatic details of the great | battle began to unfold. All four nations joined in the vic- tory which a communique discloses cost the Japanese a total ‘of 82 planes instead of 55 as was prev- iously announced. And down to the bottom went 10 warships and 12 Jap troopships, carrying upwards of 15,~ 000 Japs to their deaths. ‘Two crippled and helpless Jap de- stroyers were still afloat. Some remnants of the armada attempted to take advantage of bad weather to sneak reinforcements to beleaguered enemy troops on New Guinea Island. Aerial mop-up squadrons still* Merry - Go-Round ‘ By DREW PEARSON i (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) ! - | WASHINGTON.—The State De- partment isn’'t announcing it, bu!J several diplomats from the smaller | European states—in addition to Finland—are coming in to express worry over Russian victories. These | have - their - cake - and - eat - it too diplomats want Hitler to be defeated, -but don't want Rus- sia to win. | Some of the State Department boys, among them Assistant Sec- retary Adolf Berle, secretly agree. | Best answer to this fear was ex- pressed inadvertently by Soviet Am- bassador Litvinoff in talking with a prominent businessman from the middle west. Litvinoff asked him!} what people in that part of the country thought about Russia. “I'm going to be perfectly frank with you,” replied the midwestern- er. “People in my part of the, country admire the great fight Russia has made against Germany and they have the highest praise | of your Army. But they fear the spread of communism after the| war.” Ambassador Litvinoff replied! thoughtfully that there was no ground for such fears, that all\ *Russia wanted to do was to defeat | the Axis as quickly as possible, then live in peace within her own boun- daries. “However,” added Litvinoff, “if the fear of Russia in western Eu-| rope really worries you, there 15' one very easy way to dispose of it “What i¢ that?” asked the gentle- | man from the west. i “The American and British armies should march into Berlin first.” | LABOR LEADER EXIT One of the AF of L big-shots,} John Coyne, president of the pow- | erful Building Trades Department, is about to get the axe. Coyne’s Building Trades Depart- ment represents about 1,700,000 or-\ ganized workmen in the cnrpenters,( plumbers, electrical workers and| other AFL building trades unions. But he will be ousted at the next meeting of the executive council | m May. He was voted a leave orl ubsence after the last meeting m; Miami, where some members didn't | approve his behavior. | Richard Gray, secrefary-treasur- er of the AFL Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers Union is top candi- date to succeed him. |L. Ickes in a letter to Chairman | road would join the Alcan High- clubs in New York.” As Lanham finished reading the letter, applause from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle was heard when the Texan described the Lamhm\ son at- tack as “improper, unfair.” Rep. Baldwin, New York Repub- lican, arose to declare that Lanham voiced the sentiment of those on “this Md(’ of the alsle. too. DEFERMENI i Lieut. R. H. O’Kane and Lieut. Comdr. Dudley W. Morton NAVIGATING with the aid of a 25-cent map of the New Guinea area, the U. S. submarine Wahoo sunk eight Jap ships, including a destroyer, a transport and an oil tanker. On the record-breaking patrol, the Wahoo was under the command of Lieut. Comdr. Dudley W. Morton of Miami, Fla., and his executive officer, Lieut. Richard S. O’Kane of San Rafael, Cal., shown above in a radiophoto taken at Honolulu following their heroic exploits. (Intezmmanal) l(KES URGES BUITER M"_K Forclng Toil Tillers Info m "Ma Be Trag- "Is Repori SECONDROAD OFF SHELVES i s Revort WASHINGTON, March 5. The Senate Military Affairs Committee recommends legislation that will re- strain the movement of labor away {from the farms to avoid a result I that “may be tragic.” The recommendation is made, in a FOR ALASKA AT FAIRBANKS Bill Pending in Congress Food Dealers Object fo for Route Nearer OPA Ceiling Price, Coast Withdraw ltems islation providing deferment of es- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 5.— gopia) farm workers has been so All food dealers in Fairbanks but . i...mscribed by red tape” that cne firm have withdrawn butter ;o purpose has not been accom- and canned milk from sale on ac- plished. count of the ceiling price fixed by the Office of Price Administration. ! The ceiling price on butter here was put at 69 cents and on milk, 14 cents a can. bill that will defer farm workers being inducted into the Army for the remainder of 1943. ‘The report says that existing leg- WASHINGTON, March 5—En- actment of a bill authorizing a $25,- 000,000 highway to Alaska through Canadian territory is recommended by Secretary of the Interior Harold Harry Bndges Flles Robinson of the House Roads Com- mittee. . Starting from Prince George, the way at Whitehorse, following the route recommended by the Alaskan International Highway Commission. The letter was made public by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- ! mond who explained that Ickes said the route would afford a direct line of communication between Seattle and Fairbanks and could easily be expanded to serve coastal points which would afford transportation facilities for equipment and supplies required for the highway construc- tion. PEGGING PRACTICE EAST LANSING, Mich.—Catchers | |union leader and California Con- p R 0 MOTE D \grm of Industrial Organization di- AlASKA poSI\szw{) bond here and remain at of | rector, who is fighting deportation liberty pending appeal from denial - $3,000 Appeal Bond i | MAJOR TAIT | SAN FRANCISCO, March 5. — ‘Harry Bridges, waterfront labor on charges of subversive affilia- |tions, was permitted to sign a new habeas corpus writ. Nouce of appeal to the United ¢ SEATTLE, March 5.— Major |George P. Tait, engineer ‘for the | Puget Sound Power and Lxgmcom-wrnl Judge Martin 1. | pany before joining: the staff of (filed for Bridges by Richard Gl ad-! the Seattle District, United Stulcs)flum his attorney. | Army Engineers three yeafs nvo,‘ yy - | has been named Chief of the Al-| MISS DOOLEY RETURNS (aska Operations Division. Miss Roberta Dooley, who has {h report ‘asking for the passage of the pases in Ju- Solomons ASKEDFOR EARLY DAY FARM MEN RAID MADE ON KISKA: Hits Obserrflv*ed in Camp Area-Solomon Posi- tions Also Smashed WASHINGTON, March 5.-—Amer- ican planes, raiding throushout the have hit again at four Jap and also a A in the Aleti- reports today in a weific, fans, the Navy communique. The communique also tells of two Jap planes bombing U. S. positions c¢n Guadalcanal but without any damage being reported. The Navy communique says that “March 2, during the early morning, Warhawks attacked Jap positions on Kiska and hits were observed madn in lm- camp area. NENANAICE STILLTHICK The ice is unusually thick in the anana, according to advices re- ived by the Empire today. The ides of the sloughs are rotten and on States circuit court from a denial (here is water on the top of the ‘or the habeas corpus writ by Fed- Nenana River ice. Teams and trucks | Welsh was | are tied up. This for is the ice dope today the hundreds of guessers who are | should know checkinig up their chances of being awarded several thousand dollar: Tickets are now on sale at sev ‘Plane Crashes in Inferior; | Pilof, Flight Mechanic Are Believed Killed Insianllyi | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 5.- A PAA plane, bound from Nome to Fairbanks, hit a mountain near the headwaters of the Nulato river last Sunda; | The wreckage has been seen from | air and dog teams have left Nulato rm the scene of the wreck and will e back in Nulato in about one! week. Pilot Donald McLennan and Flight Mechanic Freddie Moller ,are believed to have surely been | | killed instantly in the crash. McLennan’s wife resides at Vista, | California. Moller was not mar- ried. 1 - PRICESON PORK SET: RESTSOON Price Celllngs on Other| Meats About April | 1, Says Brown WASHINGTON, March 5-Uni- form price ceilings may be applied soon to all retall sales of beef, veal, lamb, mutton, and eventually hun- dreds of ether common food items. Announcing specific ceilings on retail sales of pork, Office of Price Administration Director Prentiss Brown, today said that similar cents- ver-pound maximums would be s sued in a’ few weeks on other meats wnd that probably the time to start meat rationing would be about April 1. Describing pork eilings a a jne;.w blow to the black market Brown said that the able housewife what she should pay. He added that ra- tioning would also divide the ble meat supplies more equitably among stores of the communities exactly avail Clears 270-mile Long Rail- CAPITAL CHAFF Before Connecticut Congress- woman Clare Luce delivered her maiden speech panning the Brit- has rigged up a target, which in- ish on future air routes, her text | cludes a tub, for the indoor practice was carefully blue penculed by the field. It is placed on second base ————|and receivers get a daily workout §Continued on. Page Four) with the tub. / | been vacaticning in the south for eral places in Juneau and indica- trying out for the Michigan State Lieut. Col. James Laan also an- - College baseball team must improve hounced that Capt. Emil H.|several weeks, returned to Juneau UohS are the sale is going to be |their accuracy. Coach John Kobs Rausch, Jr., graduate of the Towa, 1ast night. large on the big Alaska classic WELL BABY TURNOU event, There was an excellent turnout State College, will be assistant. | - -, — | DANNER GOES SOUTH R i yesterday’'s Well Baby Clinic Canals from a Euphrates dam' George Danner, local dairyman, Thirty-nine states showed high- Health Nurse Stephenie now irrigate the supposed site of left last night for Seattle on a er accident death rates in 1941 than Bogdon sald today, with 14 chil- the Garden of Eden in Iraq. )buslncss trip. in 1940, |dren and 12 mothers in attendance to Public scoured the skies and-official reports told of how our Beau-Fighters |caught lifeboats from the sunken |ships as they sought to reach Fin- |schafen on the northeast coast of |New Gninea, strafing them and ( 0 N TI NUES y’wntchlng them sink. They caught power barges loaded to the brim with soldiers carrying iwar equipment which were destoy- | ed with all on board. QJ | The entire area of Lae to the |south of Finschafen, ogiginal des- /tination of the enemy convoy, was | blasted with 30,000 rounds of can- non and machine gun fire, | Our fighters caught six enemy \fighters on the ground while re- way Area-New Threat on '[h[ee Cifies ;ruellmg and fiestruyed fhem all, JAP RADIO IS QUIET ON BATTLE NEW YORK, March 5.—The Jap- Bryansk and|anese radio has maintained a per- g fect silence on the crushing defeat ‘TI“’ Red Army is only 18 ""]'i“‘inlluu:d by American planes on from the Latvian border, a short |, .., 00 off New Guinea. As- S ce fry 'th and south i 4 distance from the nprth and | sociated Press radio monitors have railway lines over which the Ger- | mans suppled the northwest front not picked up anything and heard in the Take Ilmen Sector. mu Japanese broadcast mention the In other announced gains, th reat battle so disastrous to the Russians drew near the railway over |Japanese in ships and men. | which the Germans shuttled sup | plies between the southern and cen tral front bases. e ——— MOSCOW, Mnrd\ 5.—Striking out | of Rzhev, the Russians have recap- | | tured scores of towns southwest and | completely cleared the 270-mile xongi railway between Moscow and Velikie | Luki with the occupation of Olenino, | 135 miles west of Rzhev. This action, coupled with Tlmo-‘ shenko’s forces on the northwest | front and advances of the Red Army | columns northwest of Kharkov, m-i creases Soviet successes and also | increased the threat on the German | positions at Oeel, Konotop. 2 AIR FORCE SUPERIORITY CHUNGKING, China, March 5— {The battle of Bismarck Sea is (hailed as an overwhelming Allied I'NKOMIES ‘S [victory by the China Times which | “The results of the battle will NEw HEAD oF |give Tokyo a terrific headache. The battle proves the superiority of the sea depends on the superiority of the air.” HELSINKI, March 5. — Finland 'I'ouGH Bov has formed a new Cabinet under conservative Prof. Edwin Linko- | PORTLAND, Ore confirm the story. The young man was so angry at his girl friend that he bit a chunk from a beer glass. ‘Then he ran out to lay his neck on a street car rail. Officers arrived before the street in which the ministerial rep- ,pohce reports ntation will be pro-Fascist and Party elimin- mie res the patriotic Peoples’ ated. ‘The foreign portfolio , has been | assigned to Sir Hendrick Ramsay | Scotts, descendant of the shipping leader Observers said there s nothing!¢aF. They sent him home—dfirst in the records either of Linkomies making ‘him pay . for the ‘braken or Ramsay to make them inaccep- |*™%: | table to Russia and consequently gy S handicap chances of the nation in|® ® © © 6.0 @ o o o o ultimate peace negotiations. » DIMOUT TIMES . -e . i . ® Dimout begins tonight e VANMAVERN BACK ® at sunset at 6:37 o'clock. . Arthur VanMavern, local broker e Dimout ends tomorrow e who has been south consulting with e at sunrise at 7:41 am . heads of commercial houses herep- e Dimout begins Saturday at e resents, returned to Juneau last e sunset at 6:39 p.m. - night from Seattle. ‘s @ o0 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 o