The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1943 VOL. LX., NO. 9292. . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —_— ] RED ARMY SMASHES TOWARD SMOLENSK Allied Airmen Machine Gun Jap Transports FIRST ARMY 'NEW LABOR Conclude Hearings on Labor Department as SHIP DECKS ARE RACKED IN ATTACK Two or Thrfiessels Are Damaged-Nips Make | | Civilian Sub Fighfers Showing Stuff; Praise OF BRITISH - WAGE PLAN For Flying Minutemen GOES AHEAD DEMANDED | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 16—Slow- ly through the screen of censor- ship, the story of the Coastal Pa- itrol of the Civil Air Patrol is be- LECTURES ON VITAL TOPICS Big Raid on Darwin ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ! AUSTRALIA, March 16. — Allied | planes damaged two of three Japa- nese transports off Aroe Islands, | northwest of Australia, raking the decks of the troop crowded ships with machine guns. | The Japanese, meanwhile, dem- onstrated an increased airpower with a 45-plane attack on Darwin, northern Australia. Allied bombers and long range fighters caught three transports near Dobo Island and sweeping down to masthead heights swept ' the craft with machine guns and dropped bombs,. scoring direct hits. | The raid on Darwin caused only light damage. .- - LEAVES FOR SKAGWAY Leonard R. Hall, USO. Super- visor for the Northwest Area, has ' left for Skagway on USO business. | The Wéshingfon( Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Not long ago Cordell Hull informed the Presi- dent that he wanted a committee of cabinet officers including the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Navy Mr. Knox, the Secre- tary of War Mr. Stimson, plus Elmer Davis, Chief of War Infor- mation, and the President himself to sit down and decide whether Edgar Mowrer, crack Chicago News correspondent recently with the Office of War Information, should receive a passport to go to North Africa. Elmer Davis, who is Mowrer’s| chief, had ordered him to go; but Hull was opposed, so Hull wanted the President and other high-rank- ing cabinet officers to decide the sal matter. | Mr. Roosevelt replied that. he felt the matter of a passport for | Edgar Mowrer could be decided by | his cabinet members without him, | and hinted that the President of | the United States had more im-| portant things to worry about. i In the end, Secretary Hull de- cided to give Mowrer the passport,’ but by this time there had been so much delay and so much argumenti that Mowrer in disgust resigned. | The incident is important not so| much because ‘Of the personalities | involved, but because it illustrates the. manner in eritment ‘departments, especially the State Department, have endeavored | to' block the Office of War Infor- EVOLVED FROM CHAOS That Office was formed with the almost unanimous approval of the | nation, certainly of the newspapers. It evolved from a confused group of bureaus—the Office of Facts and | Pigures, the Bureau of Government tion |ginning to sift out and some of 'the credit due is finally accruing to these flying minutemen. Rep. Hatton W. Sumners, of Tex- 'as, recently wrote into the Con- | gressional Record the most detailed |survey of the CAP that has yet ’becn made public. The Army, nev- er reluctant to allow the CAP to tell about its land activitigs, is fin- ally lifting the curtain a little on the Coastal Patrol. It bhas been made public recently that some Coastal Patrol planes for months have been carrying bombs and are equipped with *jim- dandy” bombsights that only cost 20 cents, but are deadly accurate tions are maintained in salmon to 3,000 feet. The story has come packing plants by inspectors of the |Out that the Coastal Patrol no U. S. Food and Drug Administra- |longer thinks anything of flying 40 to 50 miles to sea. And there we pause. Fifty miles at sea means much more than that from the home port and possibly even hundreds of miles from an emergency land- ing field. Yet- the-CAP flies most- ly single-motored planes in which a conk-out at sea means sudden death. Accoding to published reports, only seven patrol pilots have been reported “missing on mission"— a small price when it is consider- cd that they have saved hundreds of lives by spotting survivors of sunken ships, and perhaps saved thousands more by spotting bs and reporting them to sub-chasers and destroyers. To what extent the Coastal Pa- trol is responsible for driving Nazi subs away from these inshore lanes probably will never be known, but . that they were the first effective patrol in the air in this war has been admitted. In the early days of HEARD BY MEN Sanitarians Continue Training Course with Authoritative Talks Speaking this morning before members of the Restaurant Inspec- tion and Sanitation class in the Territorial Public Health Center Clarence Olson, supervisor of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, acquaint- ed them with work of the Bureau and explained how sanitary condi- the importance of fisheries, Mr. Olson s a source of income it overshadows all ‘other indus- tries” and that its “value as a source “of food—especially at the present time — means 250,000,000 pounds, or cans, of food.” Also discussed were problems of control, management and supply which arise in war time that are not present in a normal year Men of the class listened atten- tively to the discussion regarding an industry which was new to many of them, and asked questions eagerly regarding several points discussed. In closing, Mr. Olson of- fered close cooperation with the sanitary inspectors in all ways pos- sible. Emphasizing the Territory stated that * Vessel Inspections Capt. Charles Posner, USA tary inspector, Juneau, disc sanitary inspection of vessels and pointed out some of the problems arising in that respect. Dr. C. C. INEL N P Carter, scheduled to speak, was pre- vented from appearing because of emergency surgical cases. | F R E D M o l l E R 7 During the afternoon John Hall, ! public health engineer, discussed de- | (RASH SuRvIvoR 7 tails of restaurant inspection, and | nitary engineer Richard Green ' Undisturbed and unruffled by the crash landing of the plane in (Continued on Page Five) gave a detailed account on the topic “Refrigeration, Preservation, Cooking, Spoilage, Food Poisoning and Infection.” Discussing methods of preserving which he and Capt. D. L. McLennan | foods and’the necessity for such yere flying between Moses Point measures — both economic and ang Nulato, and their subsequent healthful—Mr. Green listed Proven trex of go miles across the frozen methods which include refrigera- ' tunqra and Shaktolic River, Fred tion, application of heat, drying moller, flight mechanic of the increase. of dissolved solid liquid | wrecked plane, arrived in Juneau around food, smoking, acidifying, yesterday on his way to Whitehorse and chemical preservatives. on company business. “Food infections may come from The two men were in a a variety of organisms,” Mr.Green American mail plane, which crashy stated, “from the organisms of sl ad jon March 7. A search party which carriers, through salfionella and g jocated the wreckage but see- staphylococcus infecuonsiy through 'ing no signs of life, it was feared food toxema or botulism. that the pilot and Moller had not “There is no such thing as ‘pto- syurvived. They were later located ; maine poisoning,’ ” Mr. Green point- g9 miles from the wreck, when dog ed out, adding that one of theteam parties sent to the wreck re- causes previously listed was respon- | ported signs , that the two men sible in each case. had walked away. New Students “I can't say how it happened Two new students, civillan repre- | (hat neither Capt. McLennan or! sentatives from Excursion Inlet, 1 were injured when the plane: arrived today to follow work of |crashed, guess you could call it a Meet No Resistance, Tun- isia Positions-Other Allied Actions ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 16 — The British First Army in northern Tu- nisia is advancing in the Sedjen- ane area without meeting any re- sistance in the occupied strategic wooded ridge. Other Allied forces, with artillery| support, have routed strong enemy patrols and armored vehicles in the Gafsa area, 200 miles south. The Allied communique also told of an outburst of new fury in the struggle for air supremacy in Tuni- sia and artillery action in the area of Gafsa accompanied by two heavy raids on the Mezzouna airdrome 62 miles northeast of Gafsa in which the entire airfield and a num- ber of parked planes were blank- eted by bursting bombs. The western desert air force ac- tivity is confined to patrolling along the Mareth Line positions facing the British Eighth Army, and to SWEE| among Axis transports north of Foujane. -> MARTIAL LAW NOW INFORCE, GERMAN CITY STOCKHOLM, March 16—Mar- tial Law has been imposed on the great German industrial city of Escen and has been prevailing since the great RAF raid on the Krupps armament works there Friday night March 5, and subsequent bombings. The German newspaper Essenger | National Zeitung, dated March 9, said martial law has been establish- ed at Essen and also disclosed that special trains have been leaving the stricken city daily with evacuees and injured. by the two survivors before they lit out to walk to civilization. These |must have been blotted out later iby wind and snow, Moller said “ Mr. Moller dismissed any question lof hardships in the long walk and camping in the open during the |four days between the crash and jthe time they were found. “That was no walk to speak of for those |of us who have lived in the In- ‘terior and we know how to make 'a good camp in the open,” he said Pan{.Capt. McLennan is a cheechako and it was a little harder for him than for me, of course;” he admit- which various gov- specific human diseases through pegan early the morning of March |ted, “We heard the planes on the search, but they couldn't see our isighals in the daylight,” Moller said. “We were just making camp |on the fourth night when the plane {that picked us up flew over and landed.” s ‘This was the ninth plane Mr Moller has walked away from dur- ing the twelve years he has been flight mechanic and during his own |instruction and flying years, but Information and other information |the short course — Allen Tesberg | jracle because the plane was a‘{when askeg if he felt he had used agencies, sometimes working at cross purposes. Elmer Davis was| appointed to weld them together, | and he has done a good job. He| has done it despite, not because of. | other government departments. It is almost inconceivable that| other agencies should have put so many obstacles in his path. Cables sent to him by his field represen- | tatives are frequently censored by,‘ the State Department. U. S. diplo- | mats set themselves up as judges| as to whether certain iuformatiou'; should reach Davis. Davis’ men cannot get priorities on airplanes. Military commanders in various areas can decide whether (Continued on Page Four). and Felix Peterson, both of whom | complete wreck. But, aside from a have had long experience as co0kS. | eyt Capt. McLennan had on his Still to come are representatives forenead, neither of us was hurt from Skagway who have been de- ' ny Moller, 52 years of age and va layed because of lack of transpor-|resident of Alaska for more than tation. 7 40 years, said today. Wednesday “ sessions “open at 9 I dian't know until the crash am. and include a class lecture bY occurred that we were going to Dr. George Hays, class' Yeports, njt We'd run into black clouds restaurant methods of inspection and freezing conditions had frost- form discussion by Mr. Green, and eq the windshield so that it was | field trips and a laboratory demon- jmpossible to see distinctly. There stration. were bad down drafts and we just went into the very top of a rise in the divide between the Yukon and the .coast,” Moller said. Signs Blotted Out Large “okay” signs were marked Ixn‘r.he snow and also on the plane -> ON SKAGWAY TRIP A. Van Mavern, merchandise broker with headquarters in Ju- neau, left for a business trip to Skagway this morning. up his luck, Mr. Moller said “Why I don't feel any way at all bout it. If you were in an auto- mobile wreck you wouldn't stop driving a car, would you? It is just the same.” One of the worst wrecks Mr. Moller has been in occurred in 1926 | when he was learning to fly and the “Eaglerock” plane he was in fell 12000 feet onto Parkwater {flying | field, Spokane, Wash. Everyone on |the ground at the field was sure we were all killed, but we weren't even badly injured,” he said. - - - The Yuceca plant, which grows in the southwest, is being studied as a possible substitute for im- ported hemp and jute | AFL Members of War Labor| | Board Call for Immed- | | iate Readjustment | WASHINGTON, March 16.—Am- {erican Federation of Labor mem- bers of the War Labor Board to- fday called upon the Board to ‘sm’up the 15 percent wage adjust- |ment formula and adopt a new | palicy to guarantee decision by ma- | jority rule within the Board “with- ' or |out dictation” by any person governmental agency The AFL group of five is headed by Secretary - Treasurer George |Meany who' submitted the demand. | Meany said there should be a readjustment which would provide |workers to receive increases as the |cost of living increases, thus giv- jing the employer immediate right to make adjustments without the | |War Labor Board’s approval. The | Iplan should be put into effect im- Imediately as the existence of in- lequalities in sub-standard wages is | |needed to aid in the better pro-| {secution of the war effort. > WAGE SCALE STABILIZED: NO CUTTING WASHINGTON, March 16—The Senate Finance Committee today voted without ~dissent to amend the House approved debt limitation bill to prevent any reduction in wages or salaries below the highest level reached between January 1 and September 15, 1942 Chairman George said the com- mittee decided to discard the amend- ment by Representative Disney in the House attached bill and write a new one in a more simple formu- la decreeing that Governmental agencies shall have no authority to cut salaries or wages below the lev- el reached during the first nine months of 1942 The committee’s action would in effect, George said, repeal the pro- visions of the Executive Order di- recting salaries be held to a min- imum-of $25,000 a year after pay- ment of taxes. v MICKEY ROONEY IS REJECTED BY ARMY HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 16. —The Army has rejected Mickey Rooney after a physical exdmina- tion. He is 21. The Army did not disclose the physical reasons for* his rejection but the movie actor’s mother, Mrs. Nell Pankey, said two weeks ago Mickey had high blood pressure and a fluttering heart. Mickey commented: “Last week I took my physical. I have not of- ficially been notified of the result. If T have been rejected I am sorry.” - - €. J. DAVIS HERE Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Davis of Bi- orka arrived in Juneau this morn- ing for their first visit to the Capi- tol City in a year. Mr. Davis, who is .associate air- ways engineer with the Civil Aero- nautics Administration, plans to make a trip to Skagway. They ex- pect to be in town a week and are guests at the Baranof Hotel during their stay. A former chief of police in Ju- neau and member of the Terri- torial Legislature, Mr. Davis and his wife have many warm friends in the city who will be glad to welcome them. — e | BUY WAR BONDS Arguments Summed Up The public hearings into the operation of the Territorial De- partment of Labor under former Commissioner Michael J. Haas and former employee, Senator A. P. Walker came to a close last night !with Attorney General Henry Ro- den and Harry G. McCain, counsel {for Haas and Walker, summing up arguments. The joint legislative committee will now have an executive session and will probably submit a report to the Jegislature. The committec is not to concern itself with right or wrong, guilt or innocence, but will determine whether or not the hearing laid any grounds for re- medial legislation A speech which was delivered on the eve of the primary election in Anchorage by Steve McCutcheon, then an employee of the Depart- went of Labor, was introduced last night by Roden e The speech branded Sharpe as a tool of the “$50,000" liquor® inter- ests in Seattle and the canned sal- mon industry, urged election of Haas Says It's a Lie Roden said the speech took the wind out of him. He said the charge that any Territorial employee, leg- irlator or officer dealt with the whiskey interests was lie. He said it was an outrage that the Territory could pay a man $275 a month to abuse members of the ILegislature. He was referring McCutcheon who would only enter into the investigation in that he was employed by Haas Roden said he had taken on an a “(Continued on Page Five) Here Is Speech Which "Knocked Wind Out of” Introduced as evidence in the Labor Department hearing last night was a speech given by Steve McCutcheon on the evening of April 27 over the Anchorage radio, the night before the primary elec- tion Attorney General Henry Roden read the speech at the hearing and commented, “it takes the wind out of me.” McCutcheon was then an employee of the Department of La- bor under Haas. The speech is re- printed for the benefit of those who were unable to get seats at the hearing: “Can the Seattle whiskey ring buy our Territorial government: Walter P. Sharpe and Karl A, Dra- ger think the Whiskey Ring can. Mr. Sharpe is a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Labor. Karl Drager is running for that vital post of Territorial Senator. “These two men are spending thousands of dollars of the Whiskey * STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 16.—Closing | quotation of American Can today is 77%, Anaconda 28';, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Commonwealth and Southern 13/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 48':, International Harvester 64%, Kennecott 327, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 11%, United States Steel 98':, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials 13043, rails 3243, utilities 17.53, > THEODORE HEYDER ° LEAVES T0 OPERATE THEATRE IN SKAGWAY Theodore Heyder, who has been employed at the Capitol Theatre in Juneau, left this morning for Skagway where he will operate the motion picture theatre. Mr. Heyder is the son of Theo- dore Heyder, former owner of the Peerless BaKery here and is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meier, present owners. He was born in Juneau and lived here a number of years, returning to the city about two years ago e o ARRIVES FROM SOUTH Mrs. Robert Jacox, whose band is co-pilot for Alaska Airlines, arrived here from south last night on her way Anchorage where her husband headquartered. hus- Star the to is - BUY WAR FPONDS Atiorney General Roden con- | THREEDIE Ring’s vince should “You have head Karl money attempting %o you that the Whiskey Ring be installed at Juneau. Drager on hour, week after week—let us re- mind you that each one of these minutes cost. Each one of these hours cost—and the cost for weeks on end runs into figures sound like a resume of war costs.| “Perhaps you have not heard| Walter Sharpe—the reason for this| is that Karl Drager is running the | Whiskey Ring Campaign in the| Third Division. But down in the First Division, it is Walter Sharpe as campaign manager. In Fair-| banks they have a notorious char- acter of disrepubility handling a whispering campaign for the Whis- 2y Ring. | “This combination of men backed | by funds provided by the Seattle (Continued on Page Five) DIVE BOMBERS MAKE ANOTHER RAID ONMUNDA WASHINGTON, March 16.—The Navy today reported that Dauntless dive bombers again blasted Jap positions at Vila Munda, Central Solomons. All U. S. planes re- turned but results are not reported The attack was the 93rd raid on the position. - FUNERAL THURSDAY FOR BAILEY GIRL Funeral services for Margaret Bailey, 17 years of age, who died March 12 at the Government Hos- pital, have been set for 1 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at the Charles W. Carter Chapel, it was an- nounced today: The Rev. W. P. Griffin will of- ficiate and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery Daughter of Mike Bailey of Sit- ka, Margaret has been cared for at the Bethel Beach home since her early childhood. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Melvin Brenden of Seattle, and a brother, Mike Jr, presumably in the armed forcoes, - ON TRIP TO SKAGWAY Major Gordon L. Beach, who re- cently arrived here to take charge | of the Juneau office of the Signal Corps, has left for Skagway to be away a short time on official busi- ness. to | RUSSIANS ~ ADVANCING ~ ONE FRONT | Establish Stfbng Line East of Kharkov - Spec- facular Successes (By Associated Press) | The Russian Red Army is con- | tinuing to smash westward toward | Smolensk, the German key base on the central front and also appear to have established a strong line east of Kharkov after the announc- ed loss of the Ukrainian city that was recaptured only on February 16. Four spearheads are aimed at Smolensk from the arc swinging northward from Vyazma. One of the newest and most spec- tacular successes is that reported by a column surging foward on Kholm-Zhirkovsky, west of the up- per Dneiper River. The German communique ignores the fighting in the Smolensk area but sald Nazi forces have gained further ground in the Kharkov-Bel- gorod sector and a Soviet force is encircled southeast of Kharkov. | The German war bulletin declares a heavy Russian attack in the Lake | Tlmen sector yesterday was repulsed. The bulletin also says the Soviets lost 56 planes in one day of fight- ing on the eastern front. | the air night after night, hour by I“ BlAlE = AT SITKA SITKA, Alaska, March 16—Fire of an undetermined origin burned the Al Hambre residence yesterday afternoon at 5:25 o'clock and Mrs. Hambre and two young children were burned to death. Al Hambre and an older child were also burn- ed but both will survive D ALERT LOS ANGELES, March 16—The all-clear was sounded about 2:08 o'clock this afternoon after a Red Alert had been ordered by Col Henry Beal, Public Relations Offi- cer of Southern California Defense Command. The Red Alert was ordered after an unidentified air target reported later as identified as friendly. The | preliminary alert was flashed about 11:30 o'clock. > |CAPT. R. H, STEVENSON " LEAVES JUNEAU FOR NEW POST IN CANADA Capt. R. H. Stevenson, former head of the Juneau office of the Alaska Signal Corps, left this morning for Skagway on his way to his new station in Edmonton, | Canada. | ~cCapt. Stevenson plans to make the trip down the Alean Highway to Edmonton. As Capt. Stevenson expressed it, he came to his first |post in Alaska more than twenty |years ago over the Richardson | Highway to Paxson, and is leaving !the Territory by taking another ‘hlghwny out of Alaska. Mrs. Stevenson is remaining Juneau for the present. in | ® e o 0 0 o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 7:02 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 7:10 am. Dimout begins Wednesday at e 7:04 pm. ‘e o 0000000000 LR I A Y