The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY: MARCH 15, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — VOL. LX., NO. 9291. CLAIM KHARKOV RECAPTURED BY NAZIS New Jap FOURSHIPS SENTDOWN BY AIRMEN Running Figifiakes Place Off Solomons-Rein- ! forcements Hit ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN‘ AUSTRALIA, March 15 — Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Headquarters reports a “growing concentration of enemy transports and cargo ships”! in the Ambon-Dobe region, 600 miles off the coast of northwestern Australia, and the report added that Japanese ground forces of these Dutch East Indies Islands are be- ing reinforced, and new air fields are being constructed. ! While the Japanese are admit- tedly continuing to strengthen their ring of positions covering the upper half of Australia. Allied airmen operating 1,000 miles to the east, carried out a second day attack on a Japanese convoy of five cargo ships and three de- stroyers off Wewak, northeastern New Guinea, scoring a direct hit on the bow of a large destroyer, strafing its decks and also hitting " (Continued on Page Two) E‘he Washington' Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) Honor, Distinguished Service C Medal (all army) WASHINGTON. — What actually is happening back stage in Con- gress is that Republican reaction- aries backed by Harry Byrd Dem- ocrats are using the cry of “bu- reaucrats” as a smoke screen to sabetage some of the major reforms Roosevelt built up during his first eight years. Best example is the Securities and Exchange Commission. This police organization of Wall Street was about the first thing FDR " started after the stock market de- pression days after 1932. Almost universally it has been recognized as a reform whigh must stick. But now, behind a smoke screen of at- tacking bureaucrats, congressional reactionaries have quietly moved in | and cut SEC appropriations to the bone. Already the Securities and Exchange Commission has been exiled to Philadelphia, and now, away from the Washington spot- light, it will be whittled down to 1932 days if GOP reactionaries have their way. NOTE: Meanwhile the State De- partment still hopes to persuade the Canadian Government to rati- fy the extradition treaty permitting | swindlers of America who take g refuge in Canada to be extradited| If that had been the end of it to this country. The Senate has old-line observers on Capitol Hill okayed extradition of stock market | might have written Mrs. Lucels_ ver- operators swindling Canadian cm.:bal explosion off as an accident. zens but so far the Canadian Par- | But Mrs. Luce managed to make it liament hasn’t reciprocated. .|pretty convincing that she’s no S50 13 | flash in the Congressional pan. | " Within a few days she was crossing DOUGHTON'S DOUGRTY HGHT‘vm-bal words in committee hearings Venerable Bob Doughton, North |y, - assistant Secretary of State Carolina’s longtime chairman of the |, A Berle. | House Ways and Means Committee, | 'rpjs developed into a lot of pun- sees red when it comes to the Ruml | o5ing, but Mrs. Luce came off as Fian. well as her more experienced op- Ex-Undersecretary of the Treas-|ponent. ury John Hanes, 8lso from North| Tyenty-four hours later, she, Caroling, and U. 8. Chamber of | marched down the aisle of the Commerce tax lobbyist Ellsworth House to play conversational ham- Alvord have been nipping d_ossed-;mer-and tongs with husky Rep. J.1 ly at Doughton's heels trying to|william “Bill” Fulbright, of Arkan- win him over to Ruml. But a re-|sas. Unprepared as she must have ligious fervor comes into Dough- | been, Mrs. Luce managed to come ton's eyes when he fights tax post- {out with feathers unruffled. There ponement. (was never any evidence that she “If you press me on this,” Daugh- |was any more at loss for sharp re- ton t,eyus !gmes and Alvord, uyou'u|phes than the ladies in her dramas. never get any more help from mvl‘ on other taxes.” | As nearly as it can be reduced to Doughton believes that taxes have [simple statements, the post-war air to be paid, one way or the omen‘controversy is a matter of how to and that talk of forgiving ene year's}reduce freedom of the seas to free- taxes is nothing less than sacrili- com of the air. In other words, glous. fall ships may have anchorage in Thé few members of the Ways |all parts of the world (for a sum, and Means Committee who are Ior:o-' course, and subject to certain regulations which are not prohibi- (Continued on Page Four) fiéedbnfi ofAir WASHINGTON, March 13—Well, it has happened here. I mean a freshman Congressman (only in this instance it’s a Congresswoman) has made a mark. Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, with her “globaloney” speech on post- war control of the world air lanes, knocked the lid off "an international controversy that you probably will be hearing about from now until doomsday. In less than 24 hours, it had re- verberations 1n the 'British Parlia- ment, and you can lay odds safely that it was being talked about in Russia and South America. tive). But after the war, are we! ‘ middle: Congressional Medal for Navy, Marines and Coast Guard; Navy Cross, Navy Distinguished Service Medal; bottom: Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart End of War Starls Issue in Congress E AIR BOMBED LONG FRONT U. S. Airmen, Escorted by Spitfires, Warhawks, Soften Mareth Line ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 15—U. S. Mitchell bombers raided Rommel's positions yesterday in continuation the aerial ault intended to ish Eighth Army’s coming push, though bad weather almost par; yzed the air war elsewhere on the Tunisian front Spitfires and Warhawks of Western Air Force escorted Mitchell bomber formations on the missions of destruction and made numerous sweeps independently without interception Rommel still holds the ground in a semi-circle before Montgom- | ery’s forward elements on the Med- {enine plains but Allied patrols are | striking at several points. - 7 DLANES MID AIR HEROES’' MEDALS — Most important medals awarded our fighting men. Top row, left to right: Congressional Medal of ross and Distinguished Service of two enlisted men have been re- covered by the Coast Guard. They were in a collision over Puget Sound two miles off Edmonds yes- terday. An Army plane and a Navy bomber collided. All seven men, six of them in the Navy plane, are reported lost but their names are withheld pend g notification of nearest relatives > > GHT HOUR LAW - IS KNOCKED OUT ON ALASKA JOBS geing to make our airports acces- sible to the planes of all foreign nations, and are they going to make ey their ports accessible to us? Furth- wASHINGTON, March 15—Presi- crmore, will the big transports and | gent Roosevelt has issued an exe- bombers now going to our allies|. tive order suspending the eight under lease-lend be used L0 COM- hour law as to mechanics and la- pete with the United States in car- porers employed by the Interior De- rying passengers, mail and freight? partment in construction of the t's a prob¥m that seems to have Req Mountain chromite road and * : a lot of our best thinkers up in the woiks near Seldovia. air. Heated discussions of it have| yaq August the President sus- lcng been going on off-the-record pended the eight hour law in re- both here and in England for gpect to workers employed on con- months. struction and reconditioning of de- It is no wonder that Mrs. Luce's|fense highways in Alaska. maiden speech, bringing this into ihe open, made Congressional his- | tory. It's been predicted that now;GERMANS GE“I“G that the Congresswoman from Con- | necticutt has shown the way, a| ijRY. MVAS|0N ’ FEARS MANIFESTED lot of other first-termers will be baving their say. In the long run,! this undoubtedly will be a healthy| thing. New blood is no good if it doesn’t flow. . LONDON, March 15—Jittery over |prospects of an 4nvasion this year and unruliness of the eivil popula- tion in the occupied countries, the | Germans are reported, through for- - -ee |eign diplomatic sources, to have conferred police authority in Paris " L Ra"onln |during the last fortnight and mea- {sures have been taken to prevent - |cutbreaks in the hinterlands when WASHINGTON, March 15—Two|the Allies march on the continent pounds of meat, on the average, for! All civil authorities and military every person during one week, is a Personages have now been pressed probability it is learned from those into policing western Europe under perticipating in the rationing prob- jorders issued by Field Marshal Gen lem. von Runstedt, stationed in Paris. This rationing would provide 3.1| e pound of hamburger or -only 1 1/3( !pound of sirloin steak. per person' RR'ER per week in the states. | In the states, the red coupons 4 or ]Aps SUNK would tentatively be used. | Other cuts of meat would vary,, WASHINGTON, March 15—Am- but already a wide diserepancy is erican planes supported Australian causing trade sources to complain planes in an attack near Rendova about the probakle rdtioning pro- Island, Solomons, and destroyed gram. (one small Japanese cargo carrier, |according to a report released to- day by the Navy Department. > - | BUY WAR TONDS S ROMMEL IS soften the Mareth line for the Brit- | Convoy Is Under Attack By Allies Martha Enterfains Yauks in Afria l [ | | { | i ! i | | Flinging wisecracks and | inging hot songs from the home front in the good ol Martha Raye entertains men of the U. S. Army 12th Air Force from a makeshift stage on the edge of the Sahara desert in North Africa during a tour of the fighting front. OFFENSIVE, CHINALAND Big Nippon Drive Collapses ~Troops Under Har- assing Refreat CHUNGKING, March 15 — The Chinese Command declarves the bi% Jap offensive that began March along a 100 mile stretch of the Yangtze River from the Jap base at Yochow, near the border of the Hunan and Hupeh Provinces, has collapsed and most of the 20,000 enemy troops are under a harassing retreat. One SEATTLE, March 15.—The bodies ' body of Jap troops have been surrounded,.and is not being and machined gunned, another column is being er I'he Chinese forces ‘on the north- ern bank cf the Yangtze is reported I aunched an “extensive” ounter-attack The collapse of the offensive has reatly lessened the danger of an- cr Jap drive on Changsha which withstood three previous has at- Empress of Canada Senf Down, Report Claims Vessel, Troop Laden, Torpedoed (By Associated Press) The Italian High Command de- clares in a special communique that was broadcast this morning from Rome, that the liner Empress of Canada, laden with troops, has been unk in the Atlantic by an Italian submarine. There is no confirmation of the report from any Allied source. The Empress of Canada was a twin screw vessel of 2,100 tons and built in Glasgow in 1922. D Slates are coming back into vogue in some Canadian schools, to save wlpaper and pencils, (RASHIN cpuysh 1AP Fifty Thousand Pounds d A, comedy actress 0f Dynamife Droppedin Raid on Japs at Kiska (rime Wave Prevalent in - San Francisco Police Arrest Nearly 1,000 During Three-day Roundup SAN FRANGISCO, March 15 — Arrests in a new concenirated po- lice drive against San Francisco's wartime crime wave stood close to the 1,000 mark today after a 3-day campaign but there was a ce riot in a dance hall Sunday night, six men were knifed and seven jailed, eight strong arm robberies and al- 50 a number of burglaries One sailor died as the injuries received last Th a street fight. Most of those arrested have been booked as drunks. Many are va- grants and several scores are not carrying selective service cards. Po- lice squads went through bars, pool | halls, and card rooms down town One policemen tried to explain that “San Francisco ain't getting tough, it is just some roughnecks who have moved in and it is hard to pick them out of the mob like this, but we’ll get ‘em.” ————— HKiska Raided 2 Afternoons WASHINGTON, March 15—Unit- ed States Army aircraft raided Kis- ka in the Aleutian islands on the afternoons of March 12 and March 13, the Navy reports. The American planes strafed the Japs and damaged several ground- ed planes, This is the fi report that the Japs have planes at Kiska > oo BUY WAR BONDS i reports to the m: chine writer of the followitig dispatch, has been close to the Pacific war from the first moment, He was in Honolulu at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack and wit- nessed ' the blow, telephoning the Associated Press the first nland. Later he was assigned (o the south- west Pacific and saw action both on ship board in sea bat- tles and on the peaceless grounds of Guadalcanal before the enemy was climinated from the island. More recently he was transferred to the Alaska battle zone. This is his first re- port from that front. Editor.) gene Burns, By EUGENE BURNS ADVANCED BASE IN ALASKA, March 10-—(Delayed)—Army light accompanied by made lightnings, today re- the heaviest load of ex- of the year on the Japa- # Installations and barracks at heavy bombers, man leased One high ranking Army officer said the bombing heralded the opening of a mighty spring offen- sive against Kiska, weather condi- tions permitting X Once more planes and ammuni- ticn and pilots wefe ready to pay a load of 53,500 pounds of demoli- tion bombs that boosted the total in nine months dropped on the Jap-occupied island to 1,437,700 pounds, quoting Army figures. ‘This weight does not include thousands upon thousands of ma- gun shells and 20-millimeter and 37-millimeter cannon shells. Many of the enemy’s anti-air- raft guns failed before today's five-minute operations over many buildings which took fire, but this is not the worst of the bombing It our 50,000 pounds of dynamite shook the grounds of Kiska much as our bombs shook ground at Guadalcanal, then we frightened the Japs who are pro- bably awaiting our next raid. A frightened Jap can't shoot straight the next time R as The Chilean flag consists of two horizontal bars; the lower half red, the upper half white, with blue field and white star near | mast, 504 RED ARMY FORCED T0 " FALLBACK | Blazing Béftle; However, Continues in Vital Russian Sector i (By Associated Press) . Fierce fighting is raging in the | Kharkov area, day and night, as the Soviet troops struggle against |large forces of enemy tanks and | motorized infantry. This is accord- |ing to a communique issued this | morning at Moscow. The German High Command, in a special communique Sunday night, | however, claimed the capture of the Ukraine bastion Kharkov, and that |the Nazi offensive had rolled back |the Russian southern armies more than 100 miles and was threatening (to wipe out the large important |segment of the Red Army's winter gains. The Berlin communique this | morning reaffirmed the night re- port of the recapture of Kharkoy after bitter stiff fighting, and the (Red Army has been pressed back |the new defense lines. | The midnight communique Sun- day, from Moscow, devoted only two paragraphs.to. the blazing bat- fle for Kharkov, saying heavy fighting continued. e, St et e AR T SOVIETS IN LOSING FIGHT ON 2 FRONTS Allied Quarters Speculate | asto New Moves fo Be Made by Russians LONDON, March 15 — Allied | quarters here today speculated that | the Russian forces threatening Ger- man held Orel from the south might be forced to withdraw to | straighten their front to save them- ;wlve.\ from beingecut off as the re- |sult of the reported German suc- |cess at Kharkov. Unofficial reports “look like Khar- |kov is gone,” and the Allied sources | conceded the German reports broad- lcast that Kharkov has fallen and |the “"Russian losses are yet to be surveyed.” | Unofficial reports indicate the | Soviet counter-attacks west of Bel- gorod have collapsed with heavy |losses including the destruction of |at least 44 Red Army tanks. Soviet attacks in the central sec- {tor and also in the Staraya Russ area are also declared repelled and the German claim 64 Russian planes have been shot down in 24 hours. | The Soviet drive west and south lof Vyazna is reported progressing at full speed as the Red Army cap- tured several dozen more settles ments in the past 12 hours. - 14Vessels Torpedoed | BERLIN, March 15—A German communique broadcast this meorn- ng credited Nazi U-boats with the destruction of 14 vessels, totaling 92.000 tons, { nvarious parts of the Atlantic. ® o 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 s . DIMOUT TIMES . . e . ® Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 7 o'clock. L4 ¢ Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise gt 7:13 am . ® Dimeut begins Tuesday at e ® sunset at 7:02 p.m. . o000 000000000