The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9284. P JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, [‘)4_3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —_— ] GERMANS TAKE BEATING ON ALL FRONTY U.S. Warships Sink Two Large Jap Destroye TASKFORCE Wil Atrocifies of FIGHTS OFF | PresentWarEverBe JAP ATTACK Revenged! Quesfion! By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 6—If the| skeptics turn a fishy eye or a deaf| ear at threats to hale Hitler, Mus-! | solini, Tojo, et al., before a court| |of justice and sentence them to! {their just deserts when this is all| over, they certainly have a good| WASHINGTON, March 6—U. S.| warships sank two large Jap de- troyers last night, the Navy an- nounced thls morning, when a light Jap naval force tried to break up an American bombardment of enemy installations in the central PRODUCTION OF FISH IS DISCUSSED Below Demands for This Year WASHINGTON, March 6—Secre-! NAZI FLEET IS ASSEMBLING OFFNORWAY HIckes Says_Es—iimates ArejPossibiIity 'Ailriack May Be | Made on Supply Line | to Russia LONDON, March 6.—Wide specu- SO]c%Tn(;::mquc 301, issued this, Yeason. i | tary of the Interior garnld L. Ickes|lation of the p‘ossibllll) the Ger- morning says Rep. Emanuel Celler (N. Y. | said today that despite hopes that mans are planning a major attack On March 5— (Friday) —United Pointed that out recently. He quot-| [tish production might telieve the on the Allied supply lines to Rus- States aircraft bombed Jap posi-|®d @ newspaper advocating “estab- meat shortage, the best estimates gjq were stirred here teday by tions on Munda Island, New Georg lishment of a grand court of Allied cof the fishing mdu.su'\'. for sea publication of dispatches by two ia group; Buin, southeast coast of representatives, civil and military,! ‘iflnofl output this year are “less than pey sers that a powerful con- Bougainville. During the night, a|{0f the purpose of trying those| {80 percent of the d!‘lrm(nd} e {centration of German fighting U. S. Task Force, and light sur-|EUllty of crimes during the war Tckes, Fisheries Coordinator, had iy is reported off the Tronheim face units bombarded Jap installa- | And he rang in another ne a series of meetings with members ... Norway tiofS at Vil nd :Mubda in ‘the|PABCT headline: “Atanement . for |of industry and sald “although thei" my. pyening Standard and Daily central Solomons. Light Jap sur- Atrocities” with the sub-head: “To [Secretary of Agriculture estimatedimy,,, o, prints dispatches saying face forces tried to drive off the at- |Pass this over would be to ignore {3 WIREHELICH SR R '"l”"'" the 35000-ton battleship Turpitz, tack and two large Jap destroyers ® ‘ital issue of the war | pounds of sea food products will b&f ... "ot Zeppelin, 26,000-ton were sunk. None of our vessels were, The first was from the London {needed to supply armed -forces off @~ . ritiaets . oF th : ; d \ orst, two cruisers of the faat, | Daily Express; the second, from jour Allies au@ sivilian neely e ioner and o Alinikee o die | vest opinion of the industry ls thatjiipper class and a number of de |the New York Times, lon both was 1918. In the same year, John Hayes The dateline —————— STOCK QUOTATIONS |{Hammond advocated an interna-| ".h(‘ industry’s ps are re= i) {tional court made up of jurists from | moved.” NEW YORK, March 6. — Closing | neutral countries |z “»; perpetrat- This estimate is slightly under quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |gs of atrocities. | last year’s output of 3 700,0001:00‘ stock today at the short session is| ELLTE | | pounds 4%, American Can 78%, Anaconda| Mr. Celler, delving into the old | B | Tckes noted that the Agrigulture 29%, Bethlehem Steel-64, Common-{ files of the librady of Congress, has | | Depariment’s goal is about two bil- wealth and Southern %, Curtiss uncovered some food for thought. tion pounds more t the best Wright 8'z, General Motors 48%,!The now almost forgotten “Com- | [ | production of any y and the International Harvester 647, Ken- mission of Fifteen” at Versailles| failure to meet it would not neces- necott 33, New York Central 14%,|drew up a list of 900 persons to be| Northern Pacific 11%, United States | tried before an international judi-| | Steel 541, Pound $4.04. cial tribunal and the crimes of each | production will be no more than 3,-| 1650,000,000 pounds unless many of| Trondheim arily talling off. He said the diversion of boats to mean production is are as follows: industrials 137.40, rails | 3237, utilities 17.45. R Dow, Jones averages today [ Port Lyautey, French Moroccoan port erected in 1913, has a popula- tion of 20,000. were listed. No 1 on this roll of dis-| tonor was Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Crown Prince was there, and so| were Hindenberg, Ludendorff,| Count Bismarck, and Admiral von Tirpitz. | The crimes with which they| SUN SUIT—Roxy Summer- hays wears a sun suit of tappa elastic trunks and cable shirt during a showing of summer styles at a fashionable pool in were charged were practically the! Los Angeles. The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) | | | | - | LIQUOR LICENSES | GRANTED INU. 5. DISTRICT COURT) (Same as would be brought against 'the Nazis today—mass murders,| ——— o S o |mass starvation, execution of host- AppRopR'AIIoNS ages, massacre of prisoners. They weren't, of course, on nearly so’ grand a scale. ‘ B“_l IS pASSED What happened? To make a long |story short, 12 persons were final- | AlONG '[o SE“A'I‘E, ly tried by a German court. Six | BT O MU il G | — : . — Franklin - lieutenants got four-year | ekl sevelt this week began his eleventh and the obhgr Foms gila;xxse::g:is.‘ The House stamped its fl_’f"“’"‘“ and probably toughest year in of-| Holland refused to surrender the| oy ‘pi Loraris0 APRIOPrtont | fice. It will be tough not because Kaiser but, according to Mr. Cel-‘bm S8 onm.vmg' a.ex‘xdmg t-o ,e‘ of the war, which is in good shape, ‘Her‘ you can hardly blame Holland,‘f;;:;g upp.w‘::fmu?;ed:x::? u‘:gavl: but because of increasing battles She was acting under pressure‘an& M:::f c;x: mittee came o.ulh ork, H06< Hathe fropt, |from nearly all the crowned heads yith byt stil several hundred| Nothing can ever detract from and royal families in Europe. }mou::and dollars below the amount| the long-view record of Rgosevelt‘ TR ) | recommended by the Board of Bud- as a great war leader. But in win-| Not long ago, the President said: oy | ning the war, Roosevelts greatest When viclory has been achieved, " pqqitions were made in appro- danger is that he may lose the|lt is the purbose of the government nhijations to the Commissioner of battle at home—not for himself, ' make appropriate use of infor-|nfines and the Alaska Territorial not for the Democratic Party‘:’:tm" and evidence in respect t0|Guard, both items having been (which are not important), but mr;er:s?nb;:‘banc_ crimes 0{_Lhe invad-|gliced to the bone in committee. the hopes and ideals of the Ameri- ¢ % rflu"’tl;‘ea:’"‘:h‘“ Asla. It SCEMS| A $50000 item for the Board of can people. ;thi.(- Wraiid i teymshogld ave ghjldren's Guardians was cut from There is nothing s0 dangerous | ,m. . 5_; i e time W‘“[Lhe bill, helping to bring the total 3 ey shall have to stand rer as repeated disillusionment. And if |in the courts of law in the ver down nearer the $3,001,307 total the American people were to SUf-|countries which R e nten l_’ “Ior estimated receipts for the next fer the same shattered hopes again | pressing, and answer f P-|two years. fiae. Ol 3 $0e they were | er for their acts."| This item was cut because a bill as after the last war; ey | v’rhat is, say the skeptics, unless has been passed which will abolish to see their permanent peace history is allowed to repeat itself. |, ‘hildren’: ians dreams go up in smoke; if they e the Board of Children’s Guardians were to experience the anguish of | under the juvenile setup. | [COUNCIL CONSIDERS | In all, $72,400 was added to the| another depressiens, snd the fiat- {bill in the House after it came out} TeS RO VIDIEER R er wranpline, EVERGREE" BOWL IN [of committce, but the $50.000 de-! lm':h‘::r L:‘;ms‘f‘:i;ymm Urighb notd duction made the net increase only| ‘weal r That is why some of the Presi- | MEE"“ u“ HIG'" s, dent’s friends wish, and have tact- fully suggested, that he follow Abra-| Members of the City Council last ham Lincoln’s example of devoting |night took up the .problem of se- more time to domestic problems. |curing a recreational director for The war, they feel, is well under |the Evergreen Bowl this summer. way. The main spade-work has[Mnyor Harry I. Lucas announced been done. It is no longer neces-|{he has ordered new tennis nets| | sary to"watch all the details. Mean- | for the courts. | ©On motion of Assistant U. S.! while a lot of disagreeable politics| The question of securing neces-|Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Judge G has been going from bad to(Sary lumber to make vital main- F. Alexander granted liquor licenses | worse for lack of Roosevelt's mas- |tenance repairs on sidewalks, steps in the U. S. District Court this! terful touch. |and railings was also taken up and |morning to the following: Fred O'-| {cffor'.s are being” made to secure Neil and Sarah Fenton, at Warmi ABE LINCOLN' POLITICS |the necessary allotment. Springs, retail licens Jack Kess- | . |returning passengers were, M military uses and the loss of man- poewer to the armed forces, along with scarcity of materials and sim- ilar difficulties are handicaps. PADDY IS T0 BE SENTENCED ON THURSDAY William James Paddy, convicted of first degree murder in connec- tion with the killing of Tony Simin in Douglas last August, will receive scntence next Thursday afternoon March 11. . Paddy was found guilty of first degree murder, without qualifica- tion, by a jury composed of nine women and three men after less than three hours deliberatign Under the laws of Alaska the death penalty is mandatory when 2 verdigt of first degree murder. without qualification, is returned by a jury ALASKA COASTAL MAKE FLIGHTS T0 SITKA, EXCURSION Passengers leaving Juneau for Excursion Inlet late yesterday af- ternoon with Alaska Coastal Air- lines were Emil Larman, Alex Moomoff, Richard Cornelius. Re- turning here on the plane were F. H. Yanguas, Charles Walters and Capt. A. L. Ullman. Arriving here from Sitka with ACA yesterday afternoon were Martha Kostromettinoff, C. J. Bai- ley, Mack Erdes, Ken S. Hansen |and Edward Asoy. On a second flight yesterday af- ternoon to Excursion Inlet, outgo- ing passengers were Gene Gerlz, J. O. Petrie, Harry R. Glover, Ar- thur Barlow and Paul @Marks, and H Blaine Whaley and William Ellis, Kuz. Today’s Flights Leaving Juneau with ACA today were Harold Bates, Elizabeth Hub- Lincoln, faced with a tragic war| If materials are’ available, re-|ler and Trving J. Levine, K & » and a diffienlt home front, divid- [Pairs will also be carried out on Distributors, general wholesale; Guy | n(x)r:] ‘:drfl;f:bmeT"”“_”“ e ed his time between them. He|floats and piling in the small boat F. Atkinson Company, Excursion | . mornjgr u‘:.' i listened patiently to almost every harbor, Mayor Lucas said. Inlet, retail license. in;'e ol LH'O VL.fllln;.{ ));-su'(l‘:u:ww disgruntled politician with an axe| Other routine business was taken - !V‘ Andérsofi 1';‘]!: !-I:ul« o E‘n;’ his po- Up at the meetin, §¥e son, S = e b 4 i v £ SPEEDY JUSTICE 1n~l A. Ullery and returning were litical support. Roosevelt, faced with the same problem, has spent his time al- most exclusively on the war. Much of this is necessary. But the Presi- i@ ® ® ® o o o o o |® WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Friday, March 5: Maximum 45, minimum 30. Wumm)__‘oooocoo'co . LUMBERTON, N. C. — A man| here v ulted and robbed, Six | urs later a suspect was arrested | in a nearby town. Within six more | hours, he was indicted, tried, con-‘ |victed and sentenced. - . . ° . Ronald R. Lister, Roy Mallek, Ken- neth Bensen, Arthur Tubergen and R.'J. Gabrielsen. A flight to Tenakee and another to Excursion Inlet were scheduled for this afternoon. troyers are now concentrated off of these dispatches are an unofficial source [squ ted the German fleet might {be mbling to give a battle {against long odds rather than be ‘hottled up indefinitely. - LIEUT. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT GETS HIT IN TUNISIA | Sources {not given but WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN TU- NISIA, Feb. 22--(Delayed) —Lieut Quentin Roosevelt, of Oyster Bay, N. Y., son of Brig. Gen. Theo- dore Roosvelt, was wounded in ac- tion on the Tunisian front, while forward - observer, liaison officer of an artillery unit The grandson of the late Presi dent was struck in the back either by a machine gun bullet from a strafing plane or a f{ragment of an antiaircraft shell during German Stuka-Messerchmitt 1. on an American unit in a ravine near the -planes leading to Kas- serine Pass. His condition is not serious but he is suffering from the shock. - RUSSIAN CLASS STARTED HERE Twenty Juneauites with a deep passion for learning one of the most difficult of languages turned cut Friday night to attend the fi ssion of the Rev. Makary Andre ) in the one offices of Dr. of the enrolling J. O. mem - met Rude, bers. The group elected a secretary- treasufer, Richard Byrns, to con- duct financial matters and asse: tees, and voted to eet twice week- ly, from 6-7 o'clock, meeting dates being on Mondays and Fridays. Next meeting of the clags will probably be in room 21 of the high ol, when registrations may still accepted Those present at last night's meeting were Esther Sprague, Flora Peterson, Jacob Hayes, Jr., Kath- arine Pinson, E. L. Keithahn, Minna Coughlin, Pauline Washington, Richard Green, Dr. J. O. Rude, Faith Cushman, Capt. Charles Pos- er, Richard Byrns, Ernst Oberg, rmen Yates, Sylvia Eiteman, J Beall, Jane Hinkel, Velma Monsen, Constance be M. Bloom, Mabel Watson. -+ STATISTICS NEW YORK.—Someone ured out that in the Roseland Ballroom has been in operation, 17,450,000 persons have danced a total of 165,680,098,474,400 steps, equivalent to the wearing out of 251,060 pairs of shoes. - has fig 24 years The English legal definition of a witeh is “a person who hath con- ference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.” a d | | ranoff’s class in Russian, which ¢ rsS Addresses Congress Madame Chiang Kai of struggling China, address sion be halted. (D.-Tex). She spoke at a mome Shek, wife of China's generalissimo and symbol es U. S, Beside Her on the rostrum is Speaker Sam Rayburn ent when Tokyo was broageasting . House, asking that Japan's agres- Japan plans to crush resistence in China. Sea Baitle Survivors Monped Up One Airman Spots 200 on -Lifeboats, Drops Bombs —"No Survivors” ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, March 6-—-An Allied airman saw 200 Jaj s in three lifeboats, all that rcmained of the 15,000 spilled into Bismarck Sea by the sinking of a 22-ship convoy. The sitman dropped his bombs ged to the ba survivors.” TERRIFIC EXPLOSION ~ ATESSEN (anadian Airmen Describe Attack Last: Night- Fires Are Set (By Associated Press) The German High Command, re- porting last night’s raid on Essen, which was the 52nd attack made since the war, reports that explosive ind incendiary bombs ‘“caused great damage to the residential quarters and public buildings.” In London, pilots described returning Canadian a “colossal explo- sion” sent flames hundreds of feet T 1 er 1 th most bril- iiant aerial stroke by American into the air and lighted the inter- and Allied fliers in outhwest 10r of attacking bombers Pacific, the spokesman said, and| FHght Sergeant Bill Beavo, of added that *“mopping up of su ions oft-tha Bik Guinea coast was | peared as if a 4,000 pounder was carried out methodically Friday by S0 off. T think the bomb hit a Allied bombers and long range II;:[‘"“';’ o PR R ek e enemy troops ygre found clinging INB. AR 0f Sl buthipg imd the flames were visible for a re torn up by high explosives 07| qigrance of 145 miles rvipped apart by the machine gun SR i of the fighter planes > HARRY McCAIN TO DEFEND HAAS IN LABOR PROBE Mayor Harry G. McCain of Ketch- ikan will represent former Commi ioner of Labor Michael J. Haas when the hearing of the legisla- tive investigation into the opera ticns of the Department under Haas resumes next Monday even ing at 7 o'clock in the Senate Chambers Altor General Henry Roden has completed the case for the prosecution as eounsel for the com- mittee and Haas and A. P. Walk- r will answer charges of using the office for political purposes when the hearing resumes. Musicians | - Give Dance For Public The musicians of Juneau are giv- ing a dance tonight in the S bullroom. Dancing will start at 10 o'clock and conclude at 1 a. m. This will be the first time in years that perhaps all musicians in Juneau will be heard together, for as soon as the cocktail bars close, the musicians in those places will hurry to the Elks L\uyl'uom and join those there The public is r-wnlna‘:, affal invited to this NAZIS ARE RETREATING IN RUSSIA [ Air Blow Dealt by British on Essen-Setbacks in Tunisia (By Associated Press) s snowballing offensive is credited with the recapture of more than 144 towns and villages in two days as a vast new German retreat appeared to be developing (on the Central Front. | The Red armies are striking down the old Napoleonic “escape corri- dor” from Moscow to Smolensk. Cutting southward from Rzhev, the Russians are reported to have retaken the rail town of Osuga and driven to within 40 miles of the German stronghold of Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow. Along this route Napoleon his ‘battered army. Dispatches said the Russiansare sweeping the forested region south- west of Rzhev where they have captured 80 settlements in 24 hours. Russ led In Tunisia An@ at’the samé time, the Ger- mans suffered fresh setbacks in ‘Tunisfa, underwent a violent as- sault in their homeland, too, as RAF bombers delivered new smash- ing attacks, British bombers numbering about 300 delivered a “very heavy and concentrated” attack on war foun- dries in the city of Essen, the tenth 'ccnsecutive night bombardment of the “European fortress.” | German broadcast indicated several other towns were attacked } * | also. “Fourteen of our bombers are missing,” the British reported. Essen is the home of the Krupps works. A dispatch from the Mediter- raneau reported that bombers of the Middle East Command pound- ed Naples Thursday night. In Tunisia, meanwhile, the Al- |lied troops are officially reperted to have occupied the city of Pi- chon, 55 miles southwest of the gulf port of Pichon. In the north the British First Army abandoned Sejenane and fell back several miles to higher ground to Tamera. New Position Lieut. Gen. Anderson's army, which previously had beaten off German forces at Sejenane, 35 miles west of Bizerte, apparently was unable to consolidate posi- tions. The Germans, however, havead- vanced only 20 miles along the Bizerte - Mateur - Tabarka coastal road in seven days. An Algiers broadcast said Am- erican troops led the thrust on ¢~ | Wetaskiwin, Alberta, said, “it ap- Pichon and other Americans drove acainst the western end of Faid Pass. In southern g§Tunisia, Montgom- ery’s Eighth Army inflicted “very heavy losses” on the Germans in a clash with the defenders of the Mareth line. > HAROLD SMITH ERS HOSPITAL MK Mrs, Harold Smith entered St. Ann’s Hospital this morning with a severe attack of pleurisy. She has been in bed for the past few days and was removed to the hospital when the attacks became worse. Dr, L. P. Dawes is the attending physi- cian. © o 0 o0 0 0 0 0 0 . DIMOUT TIM . . — . e Dimout begins tonight e © at sunset at 6:39 o'clock. . ® Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 7:38 am . . Dimout begins Sunday at e ® sunset at 6:42 pm L e Dimout ends Monday at e ® sunrise at 7:35 am . o Dimout begins Monday at e ® sunset at 6:44 p.m. . es e e e e s 000 e )