The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1943, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9294. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY ——= U.S. TROOPS MAKE DRIVE IN NO. AFRICA TANK FIGHT TORPED PROGRESSING, WIDE FRONT & i + NAVY CATALINAS TAKE OFF FROM Nazis Claim Advances Are| Made with Heavy Loss- es fo Soviet Forces O LANE! . 0 ! 'xlum U-BOATS € FORTRESSES, ’ Ay 7 COASTAL COMMAND Y, LIBERATORS Y\ AND amns { SECOND DAY Outwitting the U-Boat Pack—a Graphic Report from the Log of a Convoy Escort BRITISH WATERS® ~ Gruening Swings Ax On Labor Depariment ~ Appr JAP PLANES - SHOTDOWN, cpriafions Bill | Rep. Harvey J. Smith this | morning introduced a bill which would raise the salary of the Commissioner of Labor to $5,000 per year. The bill must get a two- thirds vote to be accepted by ermans, Russians Fighting Titantic Battle GAFSA NOW - RECAPTURED AFTER DRIVE |Forces Keep Pressing on Under Newly Named ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | i MOST DANGEROUS AREA S (By Associated Press) | = | | the Senate if passed by h |NORTH AFRICA, March 18.—Unit- A titanic tank struggle is being | K I SKA RAID % ed States troops, led by Lieut. Gen. No action had been taken |o ¥ ans George ton, ly named Com- A0S Weky A gn e German this mirihg i A ionbier ol | oo T LS 9 and the Russians. The Germans have hung an air| umbrella of junkers and dive bomb- | érs over the seene but the Soviet| starmoviks and tank forces are try-| ing to break through and knock out the German forces in the battle | being waged in the northern Donets River valley. The Russians report their lines have refused to break before the German masses of tanks and over-| head dive bombers being hurled | against them. | U-BO. X CRASH DIVES ON SIGHTING ONLY 2 U-BOATS | SIGHTED ALL DAY Four Affacks Made on En- | emy Submarine Base During One Day WASHINGTON, March 18.—Am- erican bombers blasted the ese sub base at Kiska, in the Aleu- tians three times on Tuesday in the fourth action of the American Japan-! including an appropriation for the Department in the general appropriations bill. Relations between the Legislature and the Governor's Office were Imore than a little strained yester- {day afternoon as the Governor in- |formed the House and Senate tirat he had used his veto power on the | appropriations bill for the Depart- |ment of Labor. | The House voted 11 to 5 to over- ride the veto, but the Senate lacked |mander of the American forces on the Tunisian {ront, have recaptured Gafsa, after a 30-mile drive, and pressed on beyond the rail city and air base toward Gabes, bottleneck. Only a few hours were required for the reoccupation of Gafsa, which was abandoned by the Allied troops in the face of Rommel's ab- ortive drive during the middle of last month, The official communique says 1it- tle opposition was encountered. U. 8. Patrols, assisted by French mobile units and guarded by Al- The German communique claims | their forces are on the offensive throughout the sector from Khan‘ HUDSON MACHINE GUNS U-BOAT. ¥ AFTERWARDS M " fighting planes. | | Two enemy aircraft were downed'one vote—five Senators voted |and two others probably destroyed.!|against sustaining the veto, three lied aerial squadrons, are driving ifter the retreating Germans into the El Gueter area, 12 miles south \ \ {f:;:lx?::: Bnfi)s:;;‘ g’lm:;;\eflllR*‘:’;:\ + Raids were also made Monday.:m favor—so the necessary two-| . Gagea and which lies 85 miles S ’;wm"’;f s r:idwfl o4 «FLYING FORTRESS & [six heavy attacks. [thirds was lncking and the Veto|jiorthwest of Gabes, the major sup- . : . g | Today's communique said, “on |stands ey e lapson gl sy e tween Kharkov and Moscow. The Germans claim the Russians March 16, U. 8. Army aircraft car-| Doc Walker Stirred jried out attacks on. Japanese in-| 1n the Senate, Senator N R.! British-American Air Arms Bring a Britain-Bound Convoy into Port Despite Nasl U-boats. (Continued on Page Two) renewed the attack on a wide front with several waves but “collapsed with heavy losses” and the claim is made that 116 Soviet tanks were destroyed. Far northwest of Kharkov in area west of Sevsk and along batlle line east of Kharkov, ex- tending down into the Donets ba- sin, the Germans are said to be of the gauntlet, American air range bombers from Britain. the number, reinforcements from the The Washington Merry - Go-Round OF ENEMY LOCATED By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen @n active duty.) Signs of New Japanese Offensive in Solomons Is Discovered WASHINGTON.—Despite the criv‘ ticism you may hear of American' planes, U. 8. airmen who have studied the current bombings of Europe say privately that one Am- erican bomber is worth five of the British. 1 American planes are heavily armed and heavily armored. Able, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN to protect themselves, they oper- AUSTRALIA, March 18. — Allied ate in the daylight, with precision airmen, striking at the enemy’s in- bombing, whereas the British|vasion bases cover a broad front, planes, flying at night, must lay blasted Rabaul, New Britain, with down 4 pattern of bombs over ai392 bombs and sowed destruction whole area, hoping that the prin- on the Kai Islands Wednesday. cipal target will be hit. | Meanwhile, Allied ground troops British planes can carry a heavier )discoverad another elaborate sign load of bombs, but the fewer bombs |f Jap offensive plans. carried by the American planes are A cOmml_mique said Gen. Douglas o6 ' effective ' becsuse they go|MAcArthurs new ground forces, :::fl‘m, to the target. | mopping up thé Mumbare River : have | mouth, 50 miles above conquered Further, American planes ) ;Buna, “have come upon an elabor- suffered fewer losses proportionate- [ gte: resmmts 2 3 ly constructed enemy de- ly than the British, both operation- | o /o “cvgtem including prepared ITH the afternoon of the first day several U-boats appeared, only to be frightened off by Iceland-based Catalinas. The convoy was entering Torpedo Lane. On the secend and crucial day patrols were augmented by long- Nazi U-boats were increasing in German bases. ¥wo subs partly surfaced. Catalinas dumped their bombs. That afternoon a U-boat crash-dived, evading a Liberator. Shortly alter, the same plane spotted another sub, immediately st{acked. With all guns blazing, a Hudson dived into battle. Its salvo of . bombs followed by the tell-tale oil slick. A Fortress spotted a pair of U-boats, attacked one, drove the other off. In the evening two Catalinas each found a target. Throughout the third day sweeping air support was in effect. Only two U-boats threatened. A Hudson went after one; the other crash-dived. With the dawn of the fourth day, Torpedo Lane had been nego- tiated. Within 24 hours, with minor losses, the convoy was unload- ing in a Rritish port. (International) Legislation for Veterans May Hif Congress Soon; ~ Exira Representation JAPAN FEARS AR ATTACKS FROM YANKS Newspaper Broadcasts Ap- peal fo Population fo Be Prepared (By Associated Press) The Tokyo newspaper Asahi says Japan expects the United States Air Forces to bomb the industrial ! By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 18.--Any day now veterans' legislation may crop up in Congress. When it does the veterans will be better repre- |sented than they ever have been in any previous war. A recent poll of the new Con- |eress has disclosed that there now are 189 war veterans on the floor |—28 in the Senate and 161 in the ;‘Hnuse, | Not only does this mean that more than 35 per cent of Congress will be full of sympathy and un- iderstanding in matters of rehabil- |itation, hospitalization and com- “pensalion for disabilities, but it ialso means that that portion of | Congress’ has a working knowledge of military aflairs. | | Two Senators and six Represen- al and combat losses. In’ fact the American contribu-, tion, s 50 important that the all- | out. bombing of . Germany must‘ await the availability of more U. S. planes. | Most people think there is a! heavy ~concentration of American | positions, pillboxes, a hospital and other installations for a large force,” e CONTRACTS FOR FROZEN FISH ARE plénes in England now, and that| the current round-the-clock bomb- ings are the big show. Neither is correct. There was a concentration of U. S. planes in England last summer and fall, made with intended pub- licity. This had the effect of send- ing the Nazis scurrying all over SOUGHT BY ARMY The Field Commissary at Fort |Richardson has asked the help’of ithe Juneau Chamber of Commerce {in securing contracts for monthly !dzliveries of native fresh frozen western Europe to mend their de- |fish in the amount of 18,000 pounds. & | The request stipulates that this fehses. Then U. S. air strength was' pulld out of England for the mis- (fish be frosen and jpacked under = - _the Uhe supervision of an Army veter- sion it had been intended for—the THabien o o A dhaRat o oAt of invasion of North Africa. y |the contractor. U. S. alr strength in England i5| " 4) "y ierecteq 1n securing these now being built up again, and When | .,npacts are asked to get in touch the time comes, the two air forces \with py j O Rude to whom the combined will stage the show IN-Imatter was referred at the Cham- tended to knock Germany out Of por of Commerce. Bids should be the war. |submitted on the type and quan i- ties of fish which may definitely be supplied. LADIES OF THE ARMY When ladies were first brought into the Army, an aide jokingly >oe Bolivia’s flag consists of three | horizontal ‘bars of equal width of |red, yellow and green. ~ {Continued on Page Four) districts of Japan this year or at|tatives date their experiences from the latest next year and made an'the Spanish-American war. They appeal to the population to be pre-!are Senators Tom Connally (Texas) pared. and Guy Gillette (Iowa) and Re- The broadcast was made over the | presentatives Culkin, Michener, Rog- Berlin radio and quoted a Tokyo ers (Pa.). Wadsworth, White and dispatch which was picked up and Woodruff (Mich.). Senator Gillette recorded by the Associated Press and Representatives Culkin and in New York City. Woeodruff also served in World War The newspaper, according to the Berlin radio, said the Japanese ex- pected ' America to launch ‘“some of their attacks from the Aleutians but these raids could not be very effective owing to the distance. Any intentions to establish bases in Si- beria have been shipwrecked by Moscow’s refusal for the third time to permit any such bases. The Unit- ed States has bases in China and a4 number of large airdromes.” — .- CAT' 10THLIFE SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Annabelle, a cat, may be living on borfowed time from now on Locked jr a store during a fire, she was rescued nine days after the blaze -eo I BUY WAR BONDS I Representatives Maas. Satterfield, Scott, Van Zandt and Walters have served in both World Wars I and II; and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and Representatives Lyndon Johnson, Magnuson, Will Rogers, Jr., and Worley have served in the present conflict. Five Senators and 36 Representa- served with the Navy, so s no likelihood that any branch will pe slighted, | ® i L | Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig, in ichurge of public relations for the Marine Corps, thinks he has unique location for a press depa | ment. His offices are in the section of the Pentagon building that looks out on Arlington cemetery. “The other morning,” he ’said recently, “we were trying to knock joul some bright pieces and 1 there (Continued on Page Two) LARGE GERMAN SUB IS RAMMED, THEN SENT DOWN ast Guar-dr WSvhip Has 12 Hour Running Fight with U-bqffl Pack WASHINGTON, March '18. — A Jarge German submarine was ram- med and sunk by the Coast Guard cutter Campbell in the North At- lantic about three weeks ago, the Navy announces. At the end of a 12-hour running fight waged by the cutter against a U-boat wolf pack, the cutter rammed at point blank range, the Navy says. The submarine settled slowly by the stern and then sank, T! Associated Press also pre- cnts dramatic successes against the U-boats on the Atlantic not cnly by the Coast Guard but by other patrols. Three submarines were destroyed by Allied escort vessels when an at- tack made on a convoy. Aircraft have also spotted other undersea craft ,and dropped depth bombs with success or given warn- ing and surface craft have done their effective work. The Associated Press also gives notice of an aftack by British and American fighter planes, RAF Lib- crators and Sunderlands that joined in a 72 bour running battle against submarines which attacked another convoy and at least three large U-boats were sent to the bottom. The action is described as one of the greatest naval sea battles of the winter. The convoy suffered * some loss. - >oe - 17 Injuredin Train Crash KENOSHA, Wis, March 18 Seventy persons were injured when a three-car express, Chicago bound crashed into a local train. Fo five of those injured in a are “ ritical condition, stallations - at Kiska. During the|ywqjger of Ketchikan found it nec- morning Liberator heavy bombers|.gary for the first time to go and Mitchell medium bombers, S“p"agumat the Governor's veto. The ported by Lightning fighters bomb- | .50, Member said that to up- .‘ th", i ,.('R,mp‘ ";{.';!.w ,l,'_"" :’“hulrn the Governor's veto was the “During the early Mu,rmxm"i)’(‘)‘nkime Department out o it eight Lightnings engaged eight s [nemy planes in the vicinity of| And in the House, Rep. William Kiska and two enemy planes were shot down and two probably de- stroyed. ater in the afternoon, Libera- tors, Mitchells and Lightnings again attacked the enemy submarine base and other installations, A large |fire was started in the camp area. Still later in the afternoon, a group of Mitchells again attacked and scored bomb hits on the submarine | | base. | T ronamE FRANCO IN ~ ADDRESSTO ~ HIS COURT Says Rus;ié's Enfry fo Make War Long One ! -"To Dgafh" MADRID, March 18 —Generalis- simo Francisco Franco, addressing the Court of Cortes, told memkers |that the objectives of the world war have changed with the entry of Russia into the struggle, that it is now a war “of death” and might last six or eight years. Referring to the spread of com- munism since the revolution in Rus- |sia, Pranco said “it is not necessary |that the Soviet armies reach a na- tion’s door. The Red revolution |will come.” | He said his regime ruled Spain by right of having won the cru- (cade and restored public order. “Only the presence of Russia a- mong the belligerents gave way to the character of war to death,” he {said. “No one dreams now of a short war nor of a peace of a hun- dred years.” Guard;v’lill Meet Tonight The tection. J A. Egan, who said he has long ad- mired the Governor as a brilliant | man, believed that the Governor’s | veto of this bill was 'based on cer- | tain prejudices.” Egan said he hat- ed to believe this, but because of the veto message, itself, could reach no other conclusion | The bill, H. B. 30, would have appropriated a total of $37,406.32 for the Department, including a raise to $5,000 a year for the Com- missioner of Labor, The Governor delivered a lengthy |veto message giving the following | veasons for the veto: Reasons ; That the appropriation should |have been contained in the regu- ar appropriation bill and the sal- ary raise in a special bill. { That the history of the Depart- { ment of Labor and the original bill | which created the Department also had a bearing on the veto. The Governor quoted the letter which he wrote two years ago upon al- |lowing the bill for the creation of jthe Department to become a law { without his signature. In this let- ter he pointed out many things which he considered defects, in- (Continued on Page Two) i 50 e e NAVY LISTS 38 LATEST CASUALTIES Listed Among Those WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Navy announces 38 more casualties n the Navy forces, including eight dead, one wounded, and 29 missing, bringing to 24466 the total Navy, | Marine Corps and Coast Guard cas- ‘\mmes reported since December 7, 1941, The grand total includes 6,749 dead, 4,613 wounded, 13,104 missing. Included in the latest casualties as missing is Alaskan Herbert Ad- rian Munter Jr., Lieutenant, (jg), in the Naval Reserve. His father is Lieut . Commdr. Herbert Arthur Munter, of the Naval Air Station, Sitka, and well known flier of Southeast Alaska. ALLIED CAUSE IS GIVEN APPROVAL BY VICIOUS VICHY LAWS KILLED BY GIRAUD'S DECREE TURKISH OFFICIAL Prime Miniéter Makes Speech Which Wins Confidence Status Restored fo 300,000 Alaska Territorial Guards, 5 Juneau units, will meet tonight at istered in the name of the Republic ® at sunrise at 7:05 am 8 o'clock in the Elks Hall. The sub- and the laws which wiped out the © ject of discussion will be gas de- principles of Democracy and local ® Jews -Democracy Principles Restored ALGIERS, March 18-—Gen Gir- aud has issued decrees repealing 62 discriminatory laws imposed by Vichy against the Jews, restored the elective municipal assemblies giving back to the officers the po- sitions from which they were re- moved because of being Free Ma- sons.* : Gen. Giraud also placed native born Jews and Arabs on the same basis by repealing the Cremieux decree which has lifted discrimin- ation on about 300,000 Jews The official statement said that sjustice henceforth will be admin- |councils are abrogated. ANKARA, Turkey, March 18. — | Prime Minister Sukru Sarocoglu to- 'day expresses thorough sympathy lof the Turkish Government with the Allied cause and policy and later won the unanimous vote of |confidence from the Assembly. Every reference in his speech ta (England and the United States brought prolonged applause. | The Prime Minister made eference to Germany in peech. no his e e o o 0 o 0 o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins toright ® at sunset at 7:06 o'clock. ® Dimout ends tomorrow Dimout begins sunset at 7:08 p.m o000 000090000 PFriday at