The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9289. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI DAY, MARCH 12, 1943 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY =3 BOMBERS SMASH AT JAP BASE AT KISKA Beat Back German Attacks In North Tunisia RAF BOMBERS STRIKE HARD, MARETH LINE Little Ground Exchanged| in Today's Desert | Fighting ‘ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN/ NORTH AFRICA, March lZ—Allled‘ bombers and fighters began soften- ing Rommel’s troop positions and supply lines in the Mareth area yes- terday as British and American ground forces beat off attacks by | Col. Gen. Von Arnim in North Tu nisia. Axis infantry and artillery itluckl again and again at the British de- | fenses near Tamera, seven miles west of Sedjenane in the north, but! each time the enemy was drivon" back with considerable losses. (Continued on Page nl The Washmgton% ree) Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active dufy)y’ WASHINGTON.—One of Wash- ington's most closely guarded se- | crets is the detailed history of | 1ubber production. Reason for the secrecy is not military. Rubber Czar Jeffers has just released what must be comforting news to the enemy that we shall have only ' 100,000 tons of rubber by the end of this year, and Bernie Baruch estimated we needed a minimum reserve of 120,000. Actually the reason is political. With 130,000,000 Americans virtu- ally taken off wheels, certain high- up individuals are anything but an- xious to have the details on rub- ber production leak out. However, here is the actual record on one of the saddest and most inexcus- able chapters in our entire econo- mic history. | In June 1940, one year and a half before Pearl Harbor, Presi- dent Roosevelt ordered an imme- | diate study of the synthetic rub- Fearing Alli A camouflaged gun is being lowered into a huge concrete emplacement ed Invasion? being built by the Nazis along the English Channel coast, according to the caption of this picture which appeared in a recent issue of a German newspaper. size. A soldier atop emplacemnt gives comparison in This pl(‘lur(‘ was radioed from London to New York. Reorganizafion of U. S, Congress Is Possible; Defects Pointed Out AMBASSADOR'S TALK WAS NOT OFFICIAL ONE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 12—Pro- bably nothing will ever come of it, but there’s a lot of comversation going around about the possible reorganization of Congress to elim- inate some of its more obvious de- VYAIMA IS TAKEN OVER BY SOVIETS Red Army Reported Iof Have Captured Tough German Stronghold (By Associated Press) Observers in Moscow have reason to believe that the hard hitting Red Army on the central front has cap- tured Vyazma, on the railway, 130 miles west of Moscow. Vyazma is one of German strongholds the in toughest the a DNB broad-" recorded by apnounces has been received, cast from Berlin, | Associated Press, the ! German army has evacuated Vyaz- in-! | ma, after demolishing military stallations there. Vyazma is the last of the famous corners of the Vyazma-Velikie Lu— ki-Rzhev triangle and the strong: est outpost of the great Germa: base at Smolensk, 230 miles west of the Soviet Union Capital The fall of Vyazma means the fast driving Soviet offensive is now udvancing upon Smolensk from the| 'ast as well as from the northeast. | - CONGRESS MUSTPLAN FOR PEACE ResponsibiWon Legisla- tors” Shoulders, Says President WASHINGTON, March 12.—The President said today it is squarely up to Congress whether the nation will have a great post-war delay in providing jobs for men leaving the armed forces and war indus- Smo-y lensk salient i Although 1o official confirmation! the ' § London Refaliation Raid Damage | | Bombs that fell from German planes during a retal ings of the occupants of the house at the left have be water that filled a bomb crater to combat incidental fires. one damaged by a direct hit were shattered by the bomb blast. New York. 'ANOTHER TAX PLAN NOW SEEN Would Give biscount for Paying Taxes in Same Year WASHINGTON, March 12—The - tion raid d‘,muzed these Lnlllltm hnmn, i moved to the stireet. Windows of houses across the street from the This picture was radioed from London to Belong- Firemen apparently used Haas Given Quizzing On Management Here 0f Labor Department Michael J former ‘Terri- torial Commissioner of Labor and now Alaskan representative for the War Labor Board, was on the stand last night from 7 o'clock un- til 8:40 o'clock when the legisla- tive hearing b conducted into House Ways and Means Committee | his management of the Labor De- h as approved a plan to reduce by as much as four percent the tax ob- ligations of persons paying income taxes before they come due, thus encouraging the individual to go on a pay-as-you-go basis. 'partment was recessed until this evening at 7 o'clock questioned closely by :neral Henry Roden, and of the committee regard- Territory by member ing trips made in the throughout the cut stencils, mimeograph letters that were in- corporated in the material out by the office. When asked if he remembered how much mimeo- graph paper he had bought in 1941, Haas replied that he did not. organizations ritory, and “I did not keep itemized accounts,"‘ he said. When again questioned regarding the large purchases of mimeograph paper in 1941 when the office had no stencils on hand, H said the office did not start Ter- | making | sent | 'NIPPON BASE IS HIT 2 TIMES IN ONE DAY 'U. S. Planes Make Attack ! at Low Levels-Anfi-air- | craft Fire Is Severe WASHINGTON, March 12.—Am- erican bombers and fighters have sted Jap gun positions and buildings at Kiska, Aleutians, the | Navy announces. There was a vio- lent, low level attack on Wednes- day, the communique says, adding that “during the morning of March 10, U. 8. aircraft attacked Jap po- | sitions at Kiska and scored bomb hits on the target area. Later in the morning, a force of Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell medium bombers and Lightning fighters again attacked the enemy instal- |lations and anti-aircraft batteries were bombed and strafed at low level, hits being scored on three buildings in the camp area and damaged. Anti-aircraft fire was encountered ‘but all of the U. S. planes returned ,safely to bases.” Heavy Raid Made The Kiska raid was one of the heaviest delivered by the Aleutians Air Command in several weeks al- though the Jap base has been re- peatedly pounded whenever weath- jer has permitted. Kiska has been |the target of five raids so far this | month, counting the two actions reported in today's communique. Damage to batteries and build- ings at low level raids has un- doubtedly been severe and the Japs have much work to do if they re- store the defense to former levels. | Anti-aircraft Fire | Effectiveness of the anti-aircraft particularly, the | lire has given (Continued on Page Three) STUTTGART HARD HIT, NIGHT RAID fects. e Gl tlv aftew the mimeographed letters early in B tries Word of this came shortly after thiie ¥ A e . ber industry to prepare for possible . Probably the . springboard for .uTas o : e8 : {he BrablAent - Sxrronssa 0])])0\)“0"“"“0u3 members of his department, heo pame Jap invasion of the Dutch East Adm"al Standle S oke SO 'of WS ik Gk Whe recently alking in a press conference y e . use of office materials and Wires n Roden asked why the office o he B . . to the Ruml skip-a-year plan on .. 2 £ Indies. That study was turned over H 0 N ’h published book, “This Is Congress,” the President didn't go into an tHe LnBUBRRORLEL" fia it natiody charged to the Department of La- .4 purchased so many blank en- | to Edward Stettinius of the Na- i by Roland Young. Mr. > was | Proad recommendations for post- i T Bty B > por, and a5 to whether any of the . kT % o A - It g. Mr. Young was PR e it that: bie g ) velope$, “You bought over 4,000 | tional Defense Commission, who on | om on fis Uwn-No for some years secretary of the|WAr Drograms drawn up by the Of Uie Sovernment under that PIan ying mogerials or wires pertained S geh's U S i el i 'mponam German Center July 13, 1940, recommended the im- | ing About Reca!l Siate Commitiee on Forelgn Rela- |National Resources Planning Board Q% 2% &S0 b 0 lio furthering his political 1fe. | yere invariably large, both logal Pounded-London Area mediate need of building synthetic Py tions. He knows his Congress, doesn’t |hd submitted to Congress Wed- mittee’s proposal, the taxpayer, by! M- Roden ope the session BY and large size and that by stuffing | rubber plants and reported to the| .o on oo Lo g (do any theorizing about it, and|nesday, but did say that the Ye-.niing any part of the taxes on 1CAUESHONINZ llaas resarding A ihem with the material he wished | Also Under Affack President: “It is expected that be- ner Welles Act,i.ng Secretary of | akes some suggestions for inter- | sponsibility for continued planninz ;.. rrang vear’s income by March 'TiP Steve McOutcheon made to the 't send it was cheaper than us- | fore this month is over a plan of | srate, said that Admiral William Pal overhauling. |rests entirely with Congress and ;5 wouiq be given a four percent Westward fo Inspect plants and yo the printed envelopes. “We| LONDON, M SRS 2 The Royal synthetic rubber production will | < | However, George Galloway, an-!nowhere else dl t that part paid by June asked if it was true that Haas had it vl % : Wi it S 13, - i andley, United States Ambas- ’ ount, that part paid by Jun d a rubber stamp with Depart-|Air Force paid the eighth nightly have been worked out which in the | other student of the Congressional| The House refused to vote funds ;5 g4 three percent discount, by Stated that MeCuicheon could not N 4 e 5 PRt e B 4 |sador to Russia, has made a clear 2, @ ree discount, by ment of Labor we could use,” he|visit in March on Germany last future will eliminate our depen- |, ccene, in a recent address before the continuing the work of the Na- geptember 15. two percent, & come from Anchorage directly 1o ¢,j | = tatement to the State Department ‘. . . . ptember 15, o percent, and by aid night, pounding the important in- dence upon imports.” that he was speaking in a purely American PolmcathClince Associa-|tional Resources Plarning Board, December 15, one percent. Juneau, s0 had gone to Fairbanks Money for Postage |dustrial and communication center What Stettinius referred to Was| personal capacity and not for the m‘;’:e ‘;‘f_l:e'?fd up the faults a little |but the Senate ha: taken no ac Thus if any person desired to es- and returned from Hass' My Roden then brought up. the |of Stuttgart in ‘southwest Gemuaby the fact that Emil Schram otJessoIUnneu States Government when he y. | tion_yet timate the tax obligation on his replied: “That is as I remember 1t matter of postage, which Haas in a strong attack in which 11 Jones’ Reconstruction Finance Cor-itold Moscow correspondents the | G S 1943 income and pay up before He may have been directed 10 80 cgtimated to have been about $20|tombers did not return. poration was negotiating with Soviet people were being kept in| First, he said, the committee sYs- | next March 15, in addition to pay- to Fairbanks for a specific pur- 4 menth When specific dates m,d[ It is also announced that a strong ; Goodrich and the Phillips Corpora- ignorance of American aid to Rus-|tem is obsolete. It results in dupli- | ng the 1942 taxes, he would get a pose.” amounts of postage were read to‘ formation of Allied planes were tion to produce 100,000 tons of l'uh-,sia last Tuesday. cations and t:hspersl‘om of eflorti ri::coufn. . .v 5 McCutcheon's OPA Job him, Haas said that he had gone | | beard flying high across the English ber. But Stettinius did not know, Welles told the reporters that It is completely inadequate Roosevelt expressed opposition in| Mr. Roden then asked if Haas (o Washington to attend a labor |channel toward France early this when he wrote his report, that whalever the Ambassador said hmhn;glmg ;«a:u:rr'ml:glslattmn 1 x>l",‘5-‘l°0nf:“‘ L“’ ”‘:‘ Ruml plan inew McCutcheon had been ap- conference around the end of 1941|MOrMing and vapor trails looped b e source: ormation upon of ahating taxes to get on a - : y 3 Jesse Jones, Schram’s superior, (Contiindd n- Begei Thieh) 2 i P 2 Ret Pay- | pointed to the OPA staff when Ne ang had been invited to an office |*DOUL the sky between Calais and would block the deal which Congress relies are insuffi- as-you-go basis. The fact is, he made a trip to Fairbank T Boulogne as if fi fights were i Rhis Jo0ss A4, Add 4 s ————————___l¢ient and too often biased. 2id, figures show that it is the e trip to Fairbanks 1250 in the Bureau of Accounts where R g e - e R Leadership is so scattered] persons of the high’ brackets wh September. Haas replied that he he was shown material available |P'o8r"%: . z months, Stettinius and various | 3 ship i s sca ) persons @ 0 did not. When asked if McCutcheon o7 Dapark £ 1. akios ‘The British Air Ministry described other defense officials, fumed, fret pRI wthrcugh scores of committee would save a great deal of money ., .. po oo N i PATSUIRIN 26 Lowr. o 40e | the Stuttgart raid as a heavy one g 2 |chairmen) and ineflective because| through the Ruml system. That, he % Nhe Was to get the OPA ad- lected the material be thought ' ted and tor¢ their hair, until fin- Y . pointment at the time the trin v, ; ¥ and this usually means participa- .rf O S aid, seents 1o be pretty well estab- would be of interest and requested ally on February 19, 1941, Jones Io BE m fbody 1o deegate 1. powers that i) was .made, Hins replied that o et thet meteics. ond requested | ion of seversl hundred :bosbers anhounced. that the RO ‘sl had t\ere hardly %s any athU T oo P — | thought not and knew McCutcheon him. “As this came in, we put it in |, tA lar;zrnl p‘(;’rt % ::uttg“nrt's it . iy . 2N = ik 4 : ¥ ’ ’ » : ation ¥ mil 3 under consideration” plans for aid- | There is no defense against pres-‘Cfles Ou(h a' Bombm Of was worried as to whether or not envelopes and mailed it out.” It .?, || . ace e sip ing the production of synthetic <un: groups nor against pressure g E EVE A he would get the appointment. went all over .the Territory, not Ii}flr‘:fi':i&un erflgu!"e‘erll:: al vlta(: g v 3 4 f - Y, nol;Gen var effort in the air an rubber, thoun;hL hedsald gw ::ete nom constituents, whose demands CU"uraI ObjEdS in l. N ARRIVE, Asked whether or not there WAS | just to labor unions but to anyone on the ground. was not urgent and possibly, s |0PAE u1|vesNow Meef 'on comparatively trivial matters of- g any unfinished pu.smrm in his we thought would benefit from it.”| The official statement also said mately unnecessary. | XeC |ten occupy so much of a congress- Relthland SEVEN lEAVE department in Fairbanks, Haas r Mr. Roden then said: “Then it{that only a few hours after the S i S Fran“sco iman's time that he has little left plied that there was. “Frank An is just & coincidence that this British bombers streamed back a- BEFORE PEARL HARBOR | mg in San {for legislative considerations man was there and I wanted Steve large amount of stationery and cross the channel, German raiders One year later, March 21, 1942, P . P That is a free translation of Mr, BERN, Switzerland, March 12- to see him and help in any way postage was purchased at a time of varlous kinds, soared over Lon- Secretary Jones issued a statement ik eggmg rO(eSS | Galloway’s criticisms, but it's a The German newspapers and radio he could.” He then.mentioned vari- when politicians are usually busy? don’s suburbs dropping bombs and which caused amazement on the part of his cabinet colleagues. Hei said that “On May 16, 1941, we concluded agreements with some of the leading producers of rubber, chemicals and oil products for the construction and operation of syn- thetic rubber sufficient to increase the total annual capacity in the country to approximately 100,000 tons.” This statement was made after (Continued on Page Pour) | ience of | Francisco, investigation of all phas- es of the growing and marketing of how Congressmen are hampered by SEATTLE, March 12—By Office of War Information<«At a confer- OPA Executives in San {resh vegetables with a view to peg- ind with prices on other foodstuffs pretty concise summation of what students of the legislative arm think are the pnnclpal complaints. Often I have v.ried to point out demands from their constituents ging prices the consumers will pay that make them just “errand boys.” And a study of the hearings in any already frozen or on the verge of €Xhaustive committee investigation |being so treated. will reveal what is meant by biased Retail costs of foods that are now sources of information. Too often 1Coi1tinuwd on Pags; 'l'tll:fl?; By (Continued on Page Three) are raising loud cries over the de- ‘erucllon inflicted by the RAF and Allied marksmen during the recent heavy attacks on Germany's big cities. The newspapers and radio are publicizing the losses of churches. schools, art galleries and other cul- tured objects. Dispatches from Berlin to S newspapers admitted the raids have idemonstrated the great power re- serve cannot be stemmed by the German defenses, } 55 Arrivals here today from Seattle were Carl H. Keil, J. J. Meherin, Ruth A. Perry and Ragner N. Berg. From Ketchikan arrivals were A. C. Black, Charles Graham, Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, Lewis A. Jones, A. E. Libby, Capt. C. F. MacDonald, Capt. John P. Robinson. Taking passage for the Westward tonight will be Sally Krisoff, Mrs. Margaret Harrgis, R. W. Miller, John C. Slagel, J. W. Moorehead, Robert Deacon and Ernest Stender, Weekly reports that were sent cus cases which he stated were settled. un- Queried as to the purpose of buying large amounts of mimeo- * graph paper in 1941 when the of- fice had no stencils, Haas stated that he had been informed would be a shortage of mimeog paper and bought it when he could - s0 as to have it when needed No Itemized Accounts Haas said the office compiled to, Haas replied that it had happened that he had made the trip at that time. Senator there labor terred O. D. Cochran asked if was any evidence left in the office that the material re- to was mailed out. Haas replied that there should be. Had Voting Lists Asked by Mr. Roden 1if there were voting lists in the files of the of- (Continued on Page PFive) ((‘nn!mued on Page Six) L I D R R R I ) ° DIMOUT TIMES . . — . ® Dimout begins tonight e @ at sunset at 6:53 o'clock. . ® Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 7:22 am . © Dimout begins Saturday at e ® sunset at 6:55 p.m. . ‘o 9 o0 0000 00000